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JOURXAL  OF  PROCEEDINGS 


AN    ADJOURNED    CONVENTION: 


HELD    IN 


ST.    MARY'S    CHURCH,    BURLINGTON, 


Wednesday,  1st  December, 
1852. 


PHILADELPHIA: 

KING  A  EAIRD,  PRINTERS,  No.  9  BANSOM  STREET. 
1853. 


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St.  Marys  Churchy  Burlington,  Dec.  1st,  1852. 

Tins  being  the  time  and  place  appointed  by  the  Special  Con- 
vention of  the  Diocese  of  New  Jersey,  convened  at  Newark, 
Oct.  27th,  1852,  for  an  adjourned  meeting  of  said  Convention, 
after  Morning  Prayers  by  the  Rev.  Messrs.  Dunn  k  Wright, 
in  the  absence  of  the  Bishop,  the  Convention  was  called  to 
order  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Dunn. 

The  roll  being  called,  the  following  were  found  present,  of 
the  Clergy  : 

Rev.  Charles  "W.  Rankin, 
Samuel  Randall, 


Rev.  George  Y.  Morehouse, 
"  Clarkson  Dunn, 


Harry  Finch, 
Samuel  Starr, 
James  A.  "Williams, 
Reuben  J.  Germain, 
Alfred  Stubbs, 
Andrew  Bell  Paterson, 
J.  Elliott  Thompson, 
Fernando  C.  Putnam, 
Henry  Beers  Sherman, 
John  L.  "Watson, 
"  Edward  B.  Boggs, 

CO    ' 

"  Adolph  Frost, 

"  Joseph  F.  Phillips, 

Of  the  Lay  Deputies  : 
Messrs.  James  Parker, 
J.  J.  Chetwood, 
R.  B.  Aertsen. 
F.  Engle,  U.  S.  N. 
Wm.  A.  Rogers, 
I.  R.  Cornell, 
Bennington  Gill, 
John  G.  Clark, 
J.  C.   Clark, 
Z.  Read, 


a 

"  Andrew  Mackie, 
"  Josiah  M.  Bartlett, 
"  Samuel  L.  Southard, 
"  Julius  David  Rose, 
"  Nathaniel  Pettit, 
"  D.  II.  Macurdy, 
"  Marcus  F.  Hyde, 
"  David  Brown, 
"  John  Rowland, 
"  Elvin  K.  Smith, 
"  Hannibal  Goodwin, 
"  Eugene  A.  Hoffman, 
"  Edward  P.  Wright. 


Messrs.  John  Coryell, 

Edward  P.  Torry, 
John  Hewett, 
Charlea  Hewett, 
Samuel  1>.  Southard, 
Thomas  R.  Wilson, 
Thomas  "Wilson, 
Randall  Rickey, 
B.  Hendrv,M.  D. 
William  Crispin, 


Messrs.  Jacob  S.  Teneyck, 
Wm.  Halstead, 
S.  S.  Stryker, 
George  E.  Tiffin, 
Edmond  West, 
D.  B.  Ryall, 
Charles  Hopkins, 
John  W.  Lane, 
J.  R.  Sickler,  M.  D. 
C.  C.  Stratton, 
Joshua  S.  Thompson, 
Josiah  Harrison, 
Thos.  H.  Whitney, 
F.  B.  Ogden, 
Joseph  Lovell 
Alfred  Mixsell, 
J.  C.  Garth  wait  e, 
Charles  M.  King, 
Joel  W.  Condit, 
J.  W.  Hayes, 
Henry  G.  Darcy, 
John  C.  Haines, 
Richard  M.  Hugg, 


Messrs.  John  Sharp, 
"       Daniel  Condit, 
"       George  A.  May  hew, 
Henry  McFarlane, 


J.  A.  Corwin,  M.  D. 
H.  D.  Law, 
Wm.  E  Hunt,  IT.  S.  N. 
Thomas  Green, 
Theodore  Rousseau, 
John  Perrine, 
Andrew  Snowhill, 
William  0.  Snowhill, 
Wm.  S.  Mallet, 
R.  M.  Ware, 
Daniel  Babbit,  M.  D. 
Thomas  P.  Carpenter, 
Thomas  Lyle, 
James  Potter, 
Nathan  Thorp, 
Joseph  T  Morton, 
Charles  M.  Harker, 
J.  L.  N.  Stratton, 
John  L.  McKnight. 

The  Chairman  then  read  the  following  communication  from 
the  Bishop. 

Riverside,  1st  December,  1852. 
My  Dear  Mr.  Dunn  : 

To  my  great  disappointment,  I  find  myself  utterly  unable 
to  leave  my  room,  this  morning,  from  the  result  of  a  sudden 
and  violent  illness,  yesterday.  I  beg  the  favor  of  your  stat- 
ing this  to  the  Convention,  as  the  reason  of  my  absence.  I 
pray  God's  blessing  on  your  deliberations ;  and  am  affection- 
ately your  brother, 

(Signed,)        G.  W.  Doane. 


Whereupon,  on  motion,  the  Rev.  Clarkson  Dunn,  was  ap- 
pointed President  pro  tempore. 

The  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  were  then  read.  Pending 
the  debate  on  their  adoption,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Watson,  and 
Josiah  Harrison  Esq.,  were  appointed  a  Committee  on  crcden- 


tials  ;  who,  reporting  that  from  Grace  Church,  Haddonfield,  to 
be  correct,  the  following  Deputies  appeared  and  took  their 
Beats. 

Charles  Hendry,  M.  D.,  and  Josiah  E.  Cole. 

Mr.  Halstead  moved  the  following  amendments  to  the 
minutes  of  last  meeting.* 

ii.  r.v  nil:  Bishop.— The  undersigned  was  unable,  from  sickness,  to  be 
presenl  at  the  Convention.  In  his  absence,  Mr.  Balstead  offered,  as  above, 
what  he  calls  "amendments,"  of  the  minutes  of  the  Special  Convention, 
heldat  Newark,  i.ii  the  27th  day  of  October.  They  were  laid  on  the  table, 
M  the  undersigned  has  been  informed,  that  the  main  business  of  the  Con- 
vention, the  consideration  of  the  Report  of  the  Investigating  Committee, 
might  not  be  deferred,  by  their  discussion.  The  intention  to  take  them  up, 
again,  and  dispose  of  them,  was,  doubtless,  lost  sight  of.  They  are  thus  left 
on  the  Journal;  misrepresenting,  in  every  instance,  but  the  last,  the  tacts, 
to  which  they  purport  to  relate.  The  undersigned  is  under  the  hi 
official  responsibilities  to  prevent  the  false  impressions,  which  they  give,  of 
the  transactions,  to  which  they  refer. 

1.  The  first  "  amendment"  (so  called)  is  a  misrepresentation,  in  this  ;  that 
it  omits  to  state  the  ground,  on  which  "the  Bishop''  expressly  "  declared" 
Mr.  Halstead. s  motion,  to  go  into  Committee  of  the  "Whole,  "to  be  out  of 
Order  ;"  namely,  that  a  motion  was  then  pending,  and  under  discussion. 
Every  body  knows,  that,  had  Mr.  Balstead's  motion  been  in  order,  and,  so, 
been  put,  it  would  have  been  rejected,  almost  unanimously. 

2.  The  second  "amendment"  (so  called)  is  a  misrepresentation,  in  this: 
that  it  omits  to  state  the  ground,  on  which  "  the  President  of  the  (  'invention 
refused  to  put"  .Mi-.  Halstead's  motion,  "to  amend  the  resolutions  of  inquiry, 
in  such  a  way  as  to  authorize  the  Committee  to  impure  into  all  other  charges, 
which  might  he  brought  against  Bishop  Doane,  by  any  responsible  person  ;" 
namely,  that  it  did  not  come  within  the  limit  of  the  call,  by  which  the  Special 
Convention  had  been  summoned;  and,  so,  could  not  come  lawfully  before  it. 
The  same  objection  lies  against  the  resolution  of  Mr.  James  Parker.  It  did 
not  occur  to  "  the  President  of  the  Convention,"  when  the  question  was 
taken,  on  that  resolution.  When  Mr.  Halstead's  motion  was  made,  his  atten- 
tion was  called  to  it,  by  a  Lay  member  of  the  Convention  ;  ami  he  decided 
accordingly. 

3.  The  third  "amendment"  (so  called)  is  a  misrepresentation,  in  this: 
namely,  that  Mr.  Rutherford's  motion,  which  the  President  of  the  Convention 

i  to  put  "wasnol"  inregard  to  a  new  presentment;  "but  a  respectful 
request,  of  the  Bishop,  to  demand  a  trial."  The  reasons  for  his  refusal  were 
fully  stated  to  the  Convention. 

!.  The  fourth  "amendment"  (so  called)  is  a  misrepresentation,  in  this: 
namely,  that  the  resolution  of  Mr.  Cortlandt  Parker,  which  "  the  President 
of  the  Convention  refused  to   put,"  was  u>d  "  in  regard  to  a  further  inquiry 

into  charges  against  the  Bishop  of  this  Diocese,"  but  a  proposed  expression 

of  opinion,  by  the  Convention,  that  a  trial  was  necessary,  to  the  restoration 
Of  his  "fair  fame."      The  reasons  for  his   refusal  were  very    fully  stated   to 
the  ( invention. 
."..  'l  he  fifth  "amendment"  (so  called)  is  a  misrepresentation,  in  this : 

namely,  that  it  omits  to  >tate,  that,  when  "  Mr.  Halstead  moved  to  he  per- 
mitted to  bring  </  new  chargi  against  Bishop  Doane,  which  he  read  in  the  pre- 
sence of  the  Convention,"  what  he  read,  wa<  the  last  of  the  nineteen  charges, 


1.  First,  that  Mr.  Halstead  moved  that  the  Convention  go 
into  a  Committee  of  the  Whole,  which  motion  the  Bishop  de- 
clared to  be  out  of  order,  and  declined  to  put  the  question. 

And  also,  in  the  following  particular,  viz. 

2.  That  Mr.  Halstead,  moved  to  amend  the  resolution  of 
inquiry  in  such  a  way  as  to  authorize  the  Committee  to  inquire 
into  all  other  charges  which  might  be  brought  against  Bishop 
Doane,  by  any  responsible  person ;  and  that  the  President  of 
the  Convention  refused  to  put  the  resolutions :  and  also, 

3.  That  "Walter  Rutherford,  Esq.,  offered  a  resolution,  in 
regard  to  a  new  presentment,  which  the  President  of  the  Con- 
vention refused  to  put. 

4.  Also,  that  Cortlandt  Parker,  Esq.,  offered  a  resolution,  in 
regard  to  a  further  inquiry  into  charges  against  the  Bishop  of 
this  Diocese ;  which  resolution  the  President  of  the  Conven- 
tion refused  to  put. 

5.  And  also,  that  Mr.  Halstead,  moved  to  be  permitted  to 
bring  a  new  charge  against  Bishop  Doane,  which  he  read  in 
the  presence  of  the  Convention ;  which  he  was  not  permitted 
by  the  President  of  the  Convention  to  do. 

6.  And  also,  that  a  representative  from  St.  Stephen's  Church, 
Beverly,  produced  a  certificate  of  election  stating  that  he  was 
duly  elected  to  the  Convention;  which  certificate  was  referred 
to  a  Committee  appointed  to  decide  upon  the  legality  of  said 

signed  by  himself,  and  three  other  laymen,  so  long  ago  as  August,  1851, 
and  published..with  the  rest  in  February  last,  in  the  words  following:  "  His 
conduct  while  presiding  in  the  Conventions  of  his  Diocese,  has  been  discourte- 
ous, undignified,  unfair,  over-bearing,  arbitrary,  and  tyrannical ;  wholly  des- 
titute of  that  Christian  meekness,  humility^kindness  and  condescension  which 
should  characterize  a  Christian  Bishop."  That  he  was  not  permitted  by 
the  President  of  the  Convention  to  bring  it,  was  because  not  coming  within 
the  limit  of  the  call  of  the  Convention,  it  could  not  come  lawfully  before 
them. 

6.  Mr.  Halstead  omitted  to  move,  as  he  promised,  he  would,  "  the  follow- 
ing amendment  to  the  minutes  of  last  meeting  :" 

That,  when  it  was  moved  by  a  Lay  Deputy,  and  seconded,  by  a  Clerical 
member,  that  William  Halstead  be  expelled  from  the  Convention,  and  the  ques- 
tion was  clamorously  called  for,  the  President  refused  to  put  it. 

The  sole  responsibility  for  this  note  lies  with  the  undersigned  ;  who  ap- 
pends it  to  the  Journal,  as  his  official  act  and  word. 

G.  W.  Doane,  Bishop  of  New  Jersey. 

Riverside,  20th  December,  1852. 


certificate:  and  that  the  said  Committee  decided  that  the  cer- 
tificate of  the  said  representative  from  St.  Stephen's,  Beverly, 
was  not  correct. 

"Which  amendments  were  laid  on  the  table  by  the  following 
vote. 

Yeas,  of  the  Clergy* — Rev.  Messrs.  Dunn,  Finch,  Williams, 
Germain,  Stubbs,  Putnam,  Watson,  Frost,  Phillips,  Rankin, 
Mackie,  Bartlett,  Southard,  Hose,  Pettit,  Hyde,  Brown,  How- 
land,  E.  K.  Smith,  Goodwin.    20. 

Yeas,  of  the  Laity. — Christ  Church,  Shrewsbury;  St. 
Mary's,  Burlington  ;  St.  John's,  Elizabethtown  ;  Christ,  New 
Brunswick;  Christ,  Newton;  St.  Andrew's,  Mt.  Holly;  St. 
Peter's,  Spottswood ;  St.  Peter's,  Freehold;  St.  John's, 
Chew's  Landing;  St.  John's,  Salem;  St.  Thomas',  Glassboro  ; 
St.  Paul's,  Paterson  ;  St.  Mark's,  Orange;  St.  Peter's,  Morris- 
town  ;  St  Paul's,  Camden  ;  Trinity,  Princeton ;  Christ,  Bor- 
dentown,  St  Paul's,  Rahway  ;  Grace,  Newark;  Grace,  Ilad- 
donfield ;  St.  Andrew's,  Lambertville  ;  Grace,  Jersey  City  ; 
St.  Paul's,  Trenton ;  Ascension,  Gloucester ;  House  of 
Prayer,  Newark  ;  Christ,  Newark.  2G. 

Xays,  of  the  Clergy. — Rev.  Messrs.  Thompson,  Boggs, 
Randall.     3. 

Nays,  of  the  Laity. — St.  Peter's  Church,  Perth  Amboy  ; 
Christ,  Allcntown ;  St.  Michael's,  Trenton ;  St.  Peter's, 
Berkley.    4. 

Divided. — Trinity  Church,  Swedesboro;  Trinity,  Moores- 
town.    2. 

Mr.  Ryall,  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  appointed  at  the 
Special  Convention,  to  investigate  the  new  matters  contained 
in  the  Presentment  then  lately  read  before  the  Court  of  Bish- 
ops, signed  by  the  Rt.  Rev.  Bishops  of  Virginia,  Maine  and 
Ohio,  against  the  Rt.  Rev.  G.  W.  Doane,  Bishop  of  the  Dio- 
cese of  New  Jersey,  and  dated,  the  22d  July,  1852,  pre- 
sented, on  behalf  of  said  Committee,  their  unanimous  Report, 
which  is  subjoined. 


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"Whereupon  it  was  Resolved,  That  the  Report  of  the  Com- 
mittee be  accepted,  and  the  Committee  discharged. 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Southard  presented  the  following  resolutions. 

Resolved,  That  this  Convention  has  now  performed  the 
work  referred  to  them  by  the  Court  of  Bishops,  to  investigate 
the  last  charges,  as  they  had  done  the  first ;  and  have  now 
redeemed  the  pledge  given  to  the  Court  by  the  Committee 
who  were  appointed  to  appear  before  them. 

Resolved,  That  the  result  of  this  investigation  and  the  evi- 
dence now  laid  before  the  Convention,  renew  and  strengthen 
the  confidence  heretofore  expressed  in  the  integrity  of  the  Rt. 
Rev.  the  Bishop  of  this  Diocese ;  and  in  our  opinion  fully 
exculpate  him  from  any  charge  of  crime  or  immorality,  made 
against  him. 

Resolved,  That  the  Convention  has  now  fulfilled  the  duty 
which  previous  Conventions  have  felt  and  expressed  their 
readiness  to  fulfill,  of  making  a  full,  searching,  and  honest 
enquiry  into  any  allegation  against  the  Bishop,  when  formally 
brought  before  it,  upon  definite  charges ;  and  we  appeal  to 
the  Church  at  large  to  ratify  our  declaration,  that  this  duty 
has  been  performed  faithfully  and  in  the  fear  of  God. 

Resolved,  That  the  Report  and  Testimony  be  printed  in 
the  Journal ;  and  that  a  copy  of  the  same  be  transmitted  to 
every  Bishop  of  the  Church,  and  to  the  Standing  Committees 
of  such  Dioceses,  as  are  without  a  Bishop,  or  whose  Bishop  is 
under  disability. 

Mr.  Halstead  offered  the  following  as  a  substitute  to  the 
above  resolutions. 

Whereas,  It  appears  by  the  published  opinions  of  the 
Court  of  Bishops,  recently  held  for  the  trial  of  the  Bishop  of 
this  Diocese,  that  six  out  of  the  fourteen  Bishops,  composing 
the  Court,  concurred  in  the  opinion  that  a  trial  on  the  charges 
contained  in  the  presentment  against  Bishop  Doane  ought  to 
be  had.  And  that  two  of  the  Bishops  who  voted  against  pro- 
ceeding with  the  trial  placed  their  decision  mainly  upon  the 
ground  of  the  irregularity  and  informality  of  the  former  pre- 


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sontmont.  And  anotlicr  of  the  Bishops  who  voted  against 
proceeding  with  the  trial,  gave  his  vote  in  view  of  the  repeated 
and  solemn  declaration  of  his  accused  Brother,  that   he  was 

then  ready,  and  would  always  hold  himself  ready  to  come  to 
trial  before  a  Court  canonieally  empowered  to  try  him,  and 
also  in  view  of  the  power  of  the  presenting  Bishops,  to  renew 
the  presentment   even   after  the   Convention  of  New  Jersey, 
hall  have  completed  its  investigation.     Thus  showing  conclu- 
ively  that  a  majority  of  the  Court  of  Bishops  (exclusive  of 
lie  three  presenting  Bishops,)  not  only  acknowledge  the  right 
of  the  three  Bishops  to  make  a  new  presentment,  but  appear 
to  indicate  its  propriety.     And  whereas,  if  the  opinion  enter- 
tained by  this  Convention,  of  Bishop   Doane's  innocence  be 
correct,  any  trial  must  result  in  the  establishment  of  his  inno- 
cence, and  in  relieving  him  of  the  grievous  wrong  and  ill-con- 
sequences of  keeping  such  charges  hanging  over  him  and  the 
Diocese,  therefore. 

Resolved,  That  the  Bishops  of  Virginia,  Ohio  and  Maine, 
be  requested  to  make  a  new  Presentment,  and  to  see  that  the 
Court  of  Bishops  be  called  with  such  formality  and  regularity 
that  Bishop  Doane  may  have  a  full  and  fair  opportunity  of 
manifesting  his  innocence,  and  of  relieving  himself  of  the 
grievous  wrong  and  ill  consequences  of  such  charges  as  are 
now  hanging  over  him. 

Which  substitute,  on  motion,  was  laid  on  the  table. 
The  Rev.  Mr.  Boggs  offered  as  a  substitute  for  the  three  first 
resolutions  of  Rev.  Mr.  Southard : 

Whereas,  A  Committee  has  been  appointed  by  this  Conven- 
;ion  to  investigate  certain  charges  made  against  the  Bishop  of 
;his  Diocese  ;  and  it  appears  by  the  report  of  said  Committee, 
that  those  charges  have  not  been  sustained  by  any  evidence  : 
therefore,  * 

Resolved,  That  this  Convention  are  not  called  upon  to  pre- 
sent their  Bishop  for  trial. 
Which  was  rejected. 


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The  question  then  being  put  on  the  main  resolutions,  they 
were  adopted,  with  one  dissenting  voice. 

Mr.  J.  J.  Chetwood  offered  the  following  resolutions,  which 
were  adopted. 

Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  the  Convention  be  and  ar< 
hereby  tendered  to  the  Committee  of  Investigation  of  tht 
charges  against  the  Bishop,  for  the  fair,  full,  impartial  anc 
independent  manner  in  which  they  have  discharged  their  re 
sponsible  duties. 

Resolved,  That  a  Committee  of  three  be  appointed  to  rais< 
the  funds,  and  aid  the  Secretary  in  the  immediate  publicatioi 
of  1000  copies  of  the  Journal  of  the  Special,  and  of  this  Con 
vention,  and  the  report  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Committee 
of  Investigation,  with  the  accompanying  documents. 

Messrs.  R.  B.  Aertseu,  E.  B.  D.  Ogden  and  J.  C.  Garth- 
waite  were  appointed  such  Committee. 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Stubbs  offered  the  following,  which  was 
adopted. 

Resolved,  That  the  Convention  deeply  lament  that  their 
Bishop  has  been  prevented  by  illness  from  being  present  dur- 
ing its  session ;  and  assure  him  of  their  heartfelt  sympathy, 
and  of  their  earnest  prayers  for  his  speedy  recovery. 

The  minutes  of  this  day's  proceedings  were  then  read,  and 
on  motion  amended  by  ordering  the  Secretary  to  record  that 
the  resolutions  offered  by  Rev.  Mr.  Southard,  were  carried 
"  with  one  dissenting  voice." 

After  singing  the  "  Gloria  in  Excelsis,"  and  prayer  anc 
benediction  by  the  President,  the  Convention  adjourned  sim 
die, 

Clarkson  Dunn,  President,  pro  tempore, 

Andrew  Bell  Paterson,  Secretary. 
Edward  B.  Boggs,  Assistant  Secretary. 


REPORT. 

To  the  Convention  of  tiie  Diocese  of  New  Jersey,  held  at 
Burlington  on  the  1st  day  of  December,  A.D.,  1852, — pur- 
suant TO  ADJOURNMENT. 

The  Committee  appointed  on  the  27th  day  of  October  last,  at  a 
Special  Convention  held  at  Newark,  on  that  day,  to  make  a  full  in- 
vestigation of  the  new  matters  contained  in  the  Presentment,  then 
lmtely  read  before  the  Court  of  Bishops,  signed  by  the  Right 
Rev.  Bishops  of  Virginia,  Maine  and  Ohio,  against  the  Right  Rev. 
(Jeorjie  Washington  Doane,  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of  New  Jersey, 
and  dated  the  22d  July,  1852,  pray  leave  to  report, 

That,  as  directed  and  instructed  by  the  Resolutions  under  which 
tley  were  appointed  and  acted,  they  proceeded  with  diligence  and  all 
convenient  dispatch  to  the  discharge  of  their  duties;  and  on  the  eve- 
ring  of  the  day  of  their  appointment,  organized  and  appointed, 
Daniel  B.  Ryall,  their  Chairman,  and  Thomas  II.  Whitney,  Esq., 
Secretary :  and  appointed  their  first  Meeting,  at  the  City  Hotel,  (called 
lelden's)  in  the  city  of  Burlington,  on  Monday  the  15th  day  of  No- 
•veinber,  1852,  at  12  o'clock,  at  noon  of  said  day;  and  instructed 
t'icir  Chairman  to  send  notice  in  writing  to  the  four  Laymen  refer- 
red to  in  the  said  new  presentment  who  had  made  complaint  to  the 
said  Bishops  of  said  new  matters ;  also  to  the  party  accused,  the 
lHght  Rev.  Bishop  Doane,  and  to  the  several  persons  named  and  re- 
ferred to  in  the  said  new  charges,  respectfully  inviting  them  to  at- 
ttnd  at  said  meeting  with  such  evidence  as  they  had  or  knew  of 
touching  said  charges,  that  the  same  might  be  examined  and  invcsti- 
gited  by  the  said  Committee:  which  was  done  accordingly  by  the 
Chairman.  A  copy  of  which  notice,  with  a  note  of  the  persons  to 
Waom  sent,  is  marked  (Exhibit  A.) 

That,  at  the  time  and  place  named  the  Committee  met;  the  Rt. 
Riv.  Bishop  Doane  attending,  with  his  Counsel,  Mr.  Stratton ;  when 
a  communication  in  writing,  dated  the  8th  November,  1852,  from 
William  Ilalstead,  Esq.,  one  of  the  four  Laymen,  Complainants  re- 
ferred to  in  said  new  presentment,  was  received,  acknowledging  the 
receipt  of  the  notice  sent  him  of  such  meeting,  but  declining  to  ap- 
peal before  the  Committee  for  the  alleged  reasons  set  out  in  his  let- 
ter \  and  admitting  he  knew  nothing  of  the  charges  referred  to,  him- 
self, and  stating  that  although  he  knew  the  names  of  the  witnesses 
by  wmom  it  was  expected  these  charges  would  be  sustained,  declined 
naming  them  to  the  Committee,  for  other  alleged  reasons  stated  in 
his  le;ter  ;  which  letter  is  marked  (Exhibit   15.) 

Your  Committee  received  no  communication  in  writing  or  other- 


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wise,  from  the  other  three  Laymen,  Complainants  referred  to  in  the 
new  Presentment,  in  reply  to  the  notices  sent  them  respectively,  neither 
did  they  appear  before  the  Committee  during  their  investigation. 

It  appearing  to  the  Committee  that  the  Room  in  the  City  Hall, 
formerly  occupied  by  the  Committee  on  the  charges  in  the  first  Pre- 
sentment, was  occupied  as  a  School,  and  that  a  more  convenient 
place  than  the  Hotel  could  be  had  at  the  Vestry  Room  at  St. 
Mary's  Church,  in  Burlington;  your  Committee  adjourned  to  the 
said  Vestry  Room,  of  which  notice  was  given  to  the  parties  and  wit- 
nesses. And  at  the  adjourned  meeting,  at  4  o'clock,  P.  M.,  at 
said  Vestry  Room,  a  letter  being  received  from  Mr.  Wakefield,  one 
of  the  Committee,  stating,  that  owing  to  sickness  in  his  family,  he 
would  be  unable  to  attend  the  meetings  of  the  Committee,  the 
Committee,  by  an  unanimous  resolution,  selected  John  R.  Slack,  Esc, 
of  Mount  Holly,  to  fill  the  vacancy. 

No  evidence  being  offered  or  appearing  before  the  Committee  :o 
sustain  the  charges,  the  Committee  adjourned  until  the  followirg 
morning,  (Tuesday,)  at  10  o'clock,  at  said  Vestry  Room. 

That  on  the  morning  of  the  16th  Nov.,  at  the  time  and  place  of 
adjournment,  the  Committee  having  again  met,  and  no  evidence  being 
offered,  or  being  present  on  the  part  of  the  accusers,  to  sustain  the 
charges  referred  to  them,  and  the  Bishop,  the  accused  party,  being 
again  in  attendance,  the  Committee  conceived,  they  might  in  justice 
to  him,  and  in  the  discharge  of  their  duty,  report  in  his  favour,  thit 
these  new  charges,  were  as  untrue,  and  unjust,  and  baseless,  as  tho$e 
made  in  the  first  Presentment;  and  so  informed  the  accused  parly 
and  his  Counsel,  they  were  prepared  to  report. 

The  Committee,  however,  informed  the  Bishop,  the  accused  partj, 
that  as  he  was  in  attendance  with  evidence  to  meet  and  rebut  tie 
charges  referred  to  the  Committee,  imputing  immorality,  they  would 
hear  his  witnesses,  reduce  the  testimony  to  writing,  and  report  tie 
same  to  the  Convention,  as  had  been  done  in  the  former  investigation, 
and  proceededto  examine  Doctor  Joseph  Parrish,  Ann  Eliza  Kelley, 
Rev.  R.  J.  Germain,  Robert  B.  Aertsen,  Esq.,  Rev.  Samuel  L 
Southard,  Capt.  Frederick  Engle,  of  the  U.  States  Navy,  and  Wil- 
liam J.  Watson,  Esq.,  on  their  respective  oaths  and  affirmatiors ; 
and  pursuant  to  adjournment,  continued  the  examination  of  vit- 
nesses,  on  the  following  day,  (the  17th  Nov.,  at  the  same  place,) 
namely,  George  Thompson,  Esq.,  Charles  Parker,  Junior,  Joel  W. 
Condit,  Esq.,  and  Thomas  11.  Wilson,  Esq.,  who  were  all  respec- 
tively sworn.  That  during  the  examination  of  the  witnesses,  on  the 
part  of  the  accused,  the  Committee  received  from  Michael  Hays,  a 
written  communication  marked,  (Exhibit  C.) 

The  Committee  report  to  the  Convention  that  the  several  wit- 
nesses examined  before  them,  were  respectively  sworn  and  allrmed 
before  one  of  their  number,  as  Master  in  Chancery ;  they  having 
without  hesitation  consented  to  take  the  oath  or  affirmation,  to  tes- 
tify to  the  truth,  the  whole  truth,  and  nothing  but  the  truth,  in  re- 


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fercnce  to  the  charges  referred  to  the  Committee:  and  their  testimony 
is  reduced  to  writing  and  respectively  Bigned  by  them  j  their  charac- 
ter and   standing   extensively  known  and   justly   appreciated,  where 

purity,  virtue,  honor  and  truth,  have  a  home. 

As  a  Committee  of  Investigation,  we  report  all  the  evidence  taken 
on  these  new  charges  against  the  Bishop  of  this  Diocese  to  the  Con- 
vention, under  whose  authority  we  have  acted,  for  their  consideration  ; 

and  with  unanimity  recommend  to  the  Convention  that  the  testi- 
mony with  the   Exhibits  may  be  read  and  published,  that  all  may 

learn  the  injustice  done  the  Bishop  of  this  Diocese  in  these  charges, 
and  the  triumphant  refutation  of  his  character  from  those  charges, 
impeaching  his  reputation  and  habits  for  temperance  and  sobriety. 
That  the  evidence  thus  taken,  so  far  from  sustaining  or  raising  a  sus- 
picion against  the  good  fame  of  your  Bishop,  discloses  to  the  world, that 
the  supplies  he  possessed  of  wines  and  liquors,  in  his  days  of  primary 
prosperity,  were  only  used  by  himself  with  "the  most  marked  mo- 
deration," and  at  his  table  and  hospitable  board,  by  the  stranger  and 
his  friends,  no  larger  supply  was  had,  "  than  was  becoming  one  in 
his  position  f  but  to  the  poor  and  the  needy,  the  sick  and  the  af- 
flicted in  the  schools,  and  in  his  town  and  vicinity,  the  physicians  of 
the  place  for  years  had  directions  from  your  Bishop  to  consider 
his  supplies  under  their  control;  and  they  "  always  acted  under  the 
permission,  and  have  made  large  drafts  upon  it,  as  circumstances  re- 
quired;" and  when  his  own  supplies  failed,  if  the  Bishop  had  not 
what  was  needed  by  the  poor,  he  would  beg  it  for  them,  of  some 
body  else:  "that  the  poor  of  the  town,  were  in  the  constant  habit 
of  applying  to  the  Bishop  for  relief  in  all  cases,  and  always  got  their 
wants  supplied  with  food  and  clothing."  The  evidence  abundantly 
disclosing  in  these  particulars  a  good  name,  fame  and  reputation  for 
your  Bishop,  as  a  meek  follower  of  Him  who  went  about  doing  good  ; 
and  whose  admonition  to  His  followers,  was  to  feed  the  hungry, clothe 
the  naked,  comfort  the  stranger,  administer  to  the  wants  and  neces- 
sities of  the  sick,  and  afflicted  ;  and  presents  a  good  example  for  all, 
to  go  and  do  likewise. 

In  comparing  the  charges  against  Bishop  Doane,  contained  in  the 
new  Presentment,  with  the  former  subjects  of  investigation,  acted  on 
by  the  former  Committee  and  the  Convention,  held  at  Newark,  on 
the  14th  day  of  July  last,  your  Committee  find  an  additional 
charge,  in  the  following  clause  contained  in  the  16th  Specification  of 
the  new  Presentment,  "  lie  also,  on  the  third  day  of  March,  A.  !>., 
l>  L848,  drew  a  promissory  note  payable  to  Wiley  &  Putnam,  Book- 
"sellers,  in  the  City  of  New  York,  for  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and 
"  ninety-seven  dollars,  and  ninety-three  cent-,  payableatthe  Hank  of 
"  North  America,  in  Philadelphia;  when  the  .-aid  George  W.  Doane, 
"kept  no  account  in  said  Bank,  and  provided  no  funds  for  the  pay- 
"  ment  of  the  said  promissory  note,  when  the  Same  arrived  at  maturity, 
"but  suffered  the  same  to  be  protested."     This  with  the  .specifications 


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numbers,  28,  29,  30  and  31,  are  the  new  matters  referred  to  your 
Committee,  and  to  which  your  attention  is  now  called. 

In  this  charge,  just  quoted,  if  proved,  your  Committee  can  see  no 
crime,  or  immorality.  It  is  simply  a  case,  if  proved,  of  a  failure  to 
pay  a  business  note,  on  the  day  it  was  due,  at  a  particular  bank :  a 
common  every-day  occurrence  in  business  transactions,  which  might 
arise  from  a  thousand  innocent  causes;  forgetfulness  of  the  day,  in- 
ability to  pay,  or  accident  in  transmission  of  the  funds.  Who  ever 
before  heard  it  intimated  a  drawer  of  a  note  must  keep  an  account 
with  a  bank,  where  he  makes  a  note  payable  ?  Such  a  note  would  of 
course  be  protested,  to  fix  the  liability  of  the  indorser,  if  not  paid 
when  demanded.  It  is  not  charged  the  note  was  not  afterwards  paid. 

The  accusers  of  the  Bishop  offered  no  evidence  before  the  Com- 
mittee on  this  charge;  but  your  Committee  in  their  search  after 
truth,  received  from  John  Wiley  of  the  city  of  New  York,  of  the 
late  firm  of  Wiley  &  Putnam,  another  communication  marked  (Ex- 
hibit D.)  stating  "  I  have  made  an  examination  of  Bishop  Doane's 
"  account  with  the  late  firm  of  Wiley  &  Putnam,  and  find  they  had 
"  from  him  in  1843,  a  note  dated  March  3d,  at  three  months,  for 
"$197  93.  I  also  find  that  this  note  was  protested  for  non-payment 
"  at  maturity;  but  that  it  was  subsequently  paid,  and  apparently  in 
"  about  twenty  days  thereafter.  With  reference  to  the  fact  of  its  being 
"  made  payable  at  a  particular  bank,  this  may  have  been  done  for  the 
"  convenience  of  the  Bishop,  or  more  likely  by  my  own  suggestion ; 
"  as  I  found  at  times  some  inconvenience  in  collecting  in  Burling- 
"  ton ;  the  notes  having  first  to  be  sent  to  a  Philadelphia  bank  by 
"  the  bank  in  this  city,  in  which  Wiley  &  Putnam  kept  their  account, 
"  and  from  thence  to  Burlington.  All  claims  of  Wiley  &  Putnam 
"  against  Bishop  Doane  were  paid  in  full,  some  years  since."  How 
the  information  connected  with  this  matter,  so  particular,  in  the  date 
of  the  note,  amount  and  bank,  where  payable,  as  set  out  in  the 
charge,  could  be  obtained  by  the  right  reverend  presenting  bishops, 
and  the  accusers,  without  the  additional  information  that  it  was 
the  mere  common  every-day  business  transaction,  involving 
no  crime,  immorality  or  guilt,  and  years  since  paid  and  settled 
between  the  parties  interested,  your  Committee  are  unable  to  state. 
They  can  only  observe,  on  a  simple  request  to  Mr.  Wiley  to  explain 
the  matter,  he  gave  the  foregoing  statement.  The  reading  world 
and  the  Church  at  large,  will  not  be  much  surprised  with  the  re- 
sult of  this  investigation  of  this  first  additional  charge  in  the 
new  Presentment;  and  may  wonder  how  and  why  this  charge  was 
made. 

Your  Committee  will  now  proceed  to  examine  the  four  new  Speci- 
fications, Nos.  28,  29,  30  and  81,  in  the  new  Presentment.  As 
Nos.  28  and  29  are  of  the  same  character,  they  will  be  examined  to- 
gether. No  evidence  was  produced  by  the  accusers,  before  the  Com- 
mittee, in  reference  to  these  charges.     The  Cashier  of  the  Camden 


Bank,  and  Joseph  Deacon,  and  Michael  Hays,  the  persons  named 
and  referred  to  in  the  two  specifications,  were  requested  by  the  Com- 
mittee to  appear  before  them  with  such  evidence  ai  they  had  or 
knew  of  touching  such  charges,  that  the  same  might  be  investigated 
by  the  Committee \  none  of  them  appeared.  Michael  Hays  Bent  a 
communication  in  writing,  (marked  Exhibit  No.  2,)  in  which  he 
admits  his  receipt  of  the  notice  to  appear  before  the  Committee,  and 
of  his  presence  at  the  Convention  on  the  '27th  of  October,  last,  and 
his  knowledge  of  the  instructions  then  received  by  the  Committee  as 
to  these  inquiries  :  and  he  adds,  "  not  having  been  officially  informed 
u  what  the  new  presentments  are,  I  caunot  know  what  evidence  to 
(i  adduce,  as  to  the  new  charges,  unless  it  be  from  what  I  have 
"  seen  in  the  newspapers  ;  and  of  these  charges  I  know  nothing 
u  of  my  own  knowledge,  except  the  case  of  the  Camden  Bank  ;  and 
"  all  1  know  about  that  is,  I  got  clear  of  paying  a  note  on  which  I 
'•  was  iudorser  of  Bishop  Doaue."  And  then  states  what  the  Cashier 
of  the  Bank  told  him;  and  adds,  "therefore  I  do  not  consider  it 
u  necessary  for  me  to  attend  before  the  Committee,  as  what  I  know 
M  of  the  new  charges,  would  be  hearsay  evidence,  except  what  I  have 
"  stated;  but  I  would  refer  you  to  the  Cashier  of  the  Camden  Bank, 
"for  the  proof  of  the  new  charges  against  G.  W.  Doane." 

In  these  matters,  as  set  forth  in  the  new  presentment,  no  crime  or 
immorality  is  charged  against  Bishop  Doane.  If  proved  and  true, 
they  only  show — at  the  respective  times  named  in  the  charges  in 
1849  and  1850,  short  periods  before  and  after  the  20th  of  March, 
1849,  when  the  Bishop  made  an  assignment  of  all  his  property  for 
the  benefit  of  his  creditors,  (which  appears  from  the  records  of  this 
Convention,) — his  disposition  and  his  efforts  to  meet,  if  in  his  power, 
to  the  utmost  of  his  ability,  his  pecuniary  liabilities  with  Deacon  and 
Hays  and  the  Camden  Bank  contracted  in  his  efforts  to  build  up 
and  sustain  the  two  Institutions,  St.  Mary's  Hall  and  Burlington 
College ;  and  his  inability  to  do  it. 

In  the  case  in  the  28th  Specification,  neither  the  Camden  Bank 
nor  Joseph  Deacon,  have  made  any  complaint  before  the  Committee, 
although  respectfully  invited  to  appear  before  them. 

In  the  casein  the  29th  Specification,  Michael  Hays, in  his  commu- 
nication, admits  he  is  not  injured.  On  the  contrary,  he  says  he  has 
been  relieved  as  an  indorser  from  his  previous  liability  on  the  note  ; 
and  the  Camden  Bank  is  the  only  sufferer.     It  makes  no  complaint. 

They  are  both  cases  in  the  view  of  the  Committee,  which,  if  proved, 
as  charged,  might  exist  where  a  debtor  with  good  intentions,  and 
without  the  imputation  of  fraud,  crime  or  immorality,  has  from  mis- 
fortune, sickness  or  disappointment,  not  been  able  to  meet  his  pecu- 
niary engagements,  at  maturity. 

If  the  charges  were  that  the  accused  had  the  means  to  meet  his 
engagements,  and  pay  his  debts,  and  concealed  his  means,  or  placed 
them  beyond   the  reach  of  his  creditors,  to  defraud  them  of  their 


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honest  dues,  then  every  honest  mind  would  condemn  the  immoral 
act,  if  proved.  There  is  no  evidence  to  sustain  such  a  conclusion 
here;  nor  can  such  a  charge  or  imputation,  be  made  against  the 
Bishop. 

Your  Committee  find  nothing  in  these  specifications  upon  which  to 
found  charges  of  crime  or  immorality. 

Specification  30. — This  Specification  charges  that  Bishop  Doane 
for  many  years  past,  and  particularly  between  the  years  1845  and 
1852,  was  in  the  habit  of  obtaining  much  larger  supplies  of  intoxi- 
cating drinks  for  the  use  of  his  table  than  was  becoming  or  proper 
as  a  minister  of  the  Gospel,  and  of  contracting  large  debts  for  the 
same ;  and  was  also  during  the  same  period  of  time  in  the  habit  of 
using  intoxicating  liquors  in  such  quantity  as  to  be  unduly  excited 
thereby,  to  the  great  grief  of  the  friends  of  the  Church,  and  the  dis- 
honor of  his  high  and  holy  office. 

That  he,  on  or  about  the  10th  Nov.,  1851,  on  board  the  Steam- 
boat Trenton,  then  running  between  the  city  of  Philadelphia  and 
the  city  of  Burlington,  was  in  a  state  of  intoxication. 

And  that  on  or  about  the  month  of  November,  1847,  in  the 
Borough  of  Bordentown,  he  was  intoxicated. 

These  are  serious  charges  against  the  Bishop  of  this  Diocese ;  and 
if  true,  were  susceptible  of  proof. 

Yet  no  proof  was  obtained  or  offered  before  this  Committee  to  sus- 
tain any  of  them. 

But  an  array  of  witnesses  were  examined,  on  the  part  of  the 
accused,  disproving  beyond  doubt  the  charges.  Witnesses  whose 
character  and  standing  are  beyond  suspicion  and  reproach.  Witnesses 
who  were  on  the  most  intimate  terms  with  the  Bishop,  with  him  at 
home  and  abroad —  at  all  hours  of  the  day  and  night,  in  sickness 
and  in  health,  in  joy  and  in  sorrow.  Witnesses  who  must  have 
known  the  habits  of  the  Bishop,  beyond  doubt  and  question.  And 
yet  they  all  disprove  the  charge. 

Doctor  Joseph  Parrtsh  affirms  and  says,  "  I  am  a  practising  physi- 
cian, residing  in  the  city  of  Burlington,  have  resided  here  nearly 
nine  years.  I  know  Bishop  Doane  intimately,  I  have  been  his 
family  physician  for  about  five  years  back.  I  have  seen  and  had 
almost  daily  intercourse  for  several  years  with  him  ;  being  the  Physi- 
cian of  both  schools,  St.  Mary's  Hall  and  Burlington  College,  I 
have  attended  the  Bishop  through  some  serious  spells  of  sickness.  I 
have  never  seen  the  Bishop  any  other  than  sober;  and  I  have  been 
in  his  family  and  at  his  table  very  frequently.  I  have  never  seen  him 
when  I  thought  him  to  be  excited  at  all  by  liquor.  I  have  frequently 
prescribed  liquors  as  stimulants  to  the  Bishop.  I  told  the  Bishop 
some  time  ago,  I  did  not  think  he  took  enough  :  and  my  reason  for 
thinking  so  was  that  the  excessive  tax  upon  him  physically  and 
mentally,  required  more  stimulant  than  he  was  taking.  I  know  that 
the  Bishop  has  been  in  the  habit  of  supplying  the  poor  of  the  town 
frequently  with  wines  and  liquors,  in  cases  of  sickness.    When  I  was 


first  employed  at  the  schools,  I  was  told  by  Bishop  Doane  to  consider 
his  wines  and  liquors  always  under  my  command  for  the  us 
sick  persons  at  the  Bchools,  and  for  all  needy  persons  in  the  town; 
and  1  have  always  acted  under  this  permission,  and  have  made  large 
drafts  npon  it,  as  circumstances  required.  I  have  heard  from  Doctor 
Cole,  now  deceased,  that  this  state  of  things  had  existed  for  years 
before.  Doctor  Cole  was  the  Bishop's  family  Physician  before.  The 
very  severe  illness  which  the  Bishop  had  in  ls4!>,  was  not  brought 
on  by  the  use  of  intoxicating  liquor,  nor  has  his  health  ever,  in  my 
opinion,  been  impaired  by  it  since  I  have  known  him.  I  am  a  strict 
temperance  man  in  principle  and  in  habit.  I  have  frequently  dined  at 
the  Bishop's  table."  Upon  the  30th  Specification  being  read  to 
witness  he  said,  "I  have  never  seen  Bishop  Doane  use  intoxicating 
liquors  to  excess.  I  have  seen  him  not  only  nearly  daily,  but  at  all 
hours  of  the  day,  without  reserve." 

Ann  Eliza  Kelley  soys,  "  I  have  known  Bishop  Doane  ever 
since  he  first  came  to  Burlington  to  reside.  31  y  son  was  very  ill  at  one 
time,  and  Dr.  Cole  ordered  him  wine  and  wine-whey  to  drink,  and  he 
told  me  I  could  not  get  any  that  was  fit  for  him  except  what  Bishop 
Doane  had  :  that  he  had  some  that  was  very  old  and  that  I  must  send 
there  and  get  it.  That  he  knew  I  would  be  very  welcome  to  as 
much  as  I  wanted.  I  sent  several  times  and  got  all  that  I 
needed  ;  as  much  as  ten  or  twelve  bottles.  I  have  frequently  heard 
people  in  the  town  speak  of  getting  liquor  from  the  Bishop,  in  case 
of  sickness.  I  have  no  doubt  that  people  have  been  in  the  habit  of 
sending  there  and  getting  in  cases  of  sickness." 

Rev.  11.  J.  Germain  testifies,  "lie  has  known  Bishop  Doane 
about  fifteen  years  ;  is  a  clergyman  of  the  Diocese;  during  the  last 
thirteen  years,  his  relations  with  the  Bishop  have  been  very  inti- 
mate ;  for  that  time  has  been  Principal  of  St.  Mary's  Hall,  which 
has  brought  him  into  daily  and  almost  hourly  intercourse  with  him. 
Has  been  frequently  a  guest  at  his  house;  gone  a  good  deal  with  him 
in  his  visitations.  Has  not  at  any  time  seen  the  Bishop  excited  by 
iutoxicating  liquors.  Has  been  always  temperate  and  sober  when 
he  has  seen  him.  He,  (the  Bishop,)  has  been  in  the  habit  of  eutcr- 
taining  a  great  deal  of  company  since  he  lived  in  Burlington.  His 
house  and  his  table  have  been  open  to  all  visiting  the  schools  and  to 
his  many  friends  and  acquaintances.  Scarcely  a  day  but  some  per- 
sons beside  his  own  family  dine  with  him.  .He,  toitnesSj  does  not 
consider  that  his  tabic  has  been  supplied  with  vinous  or  spirituous 
liquors  to  a  greater  extent  than  his  position  required.  Has  no  doubt 
from  what  he  knows  and  has  heard  that  the  poor  of  the  town,  are  in 
the  habit  of  frequently  sending  for  and  getting  liquors  from  the 
Bishop's,  in  cases  of  sickuess.  The  Hall,  he  knows,  has  been  largely 
supplied  from  there  in  cases  of  sickne- 

ROBERT  B.  A.ERT8EN  /<  Stifi  t.  He  has  been  acquainted  more  or  less 
intimately  with  Bishop  Doane  since  1834, and  very  intimately  siuce 
1849.     The  Bishop  was  very  frequently  his  guest  while  he  lived  in 

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Salem,  up  to  1849  :  since  that  time  be  has  had  constant  intercourse 
with  the  Bishop's  family  at  Burlington.  Upon  the  30th  Specifica- 
tion being  read  to  this  witness  he  says,  "  I  have  never  seen  Bishop 
' '  Doane  use  intoxicating  drinks  to  any  undue  excess.  I  believe  his 
"  habits  to  be  exceedingly  temperate.  His  doors  and  table  are  always 
"  open  to  every  person  visiting  the  Institutions  or  Riverside.  The 
"  poor  of  the  town  are  in  the  constant  habit  of  applying  to  the  Bishop 
"  for  relief  in  all  cases;  and  always  get  their  wants  supplied  with 
"  food  and  clothing." 

The  Rev.  Samuel  L.  Southard  testifies  as  follows,  upon  the  30th 
Specification  being  read  to  him,  "I  have  known  Bishop  Doane  inti- 
"  inately  for  about  ten  years.  His  house  has  always  been  my  home, 
"  when  I  have  been  in  Burlington.  I  have  travelled  with  him  a 
"  good  deal,  and  he  has  also  staid  at  my  house.  I  have  been  on  terms 
"  with  him  of  entire  unreserve  and  know  his  habits  well.  I  have 
"  never  known  him  intemperate  in  the  use  of  wines  or  liquors.  I  have 
"  known  a  great  deal  of  company  entertained  at  Riverside,  and  I  do 
"  not  remember  ever  sitting  down  to  the  dinner  table,  but  once  when 
"  only  his  own  family  were  present.  I  have  never  known  the  table 
"supplied  with  more  wine  in  proportion  to  the  number  of  the  guests, 
"than  those  of  other  gentlemen  with  whom  I  have  dined.  I  have 
"  dined  at  his  table  very  often  with  from  six  to  twenty,  beside  his 
"  family,  those  persons  being  often  the  parents  or  friends  of  those  who 
"had  children  at  the  schools.  On  several  occasions  his  house  has 
"  been  so  full  at  night,  that  even  I  was  sent  to  sleep  elsewhere.  I 
"  have  often  dined  with  the  Bishop  at  the  houses  of  mutual  friends 
"  in  the  Diocese  and  elsewhere,  and  have  observed  him  closely  and 
"  I  never  have  seen  him  use  wines,  or  liquors  to  excess  or  unduly  ex- 
"  cited  by  the  use  of  them." 

Capt.  Frederick  Engle  testifies  as  follows.  "  I  am  a  resident  of 
"  Burlington  city,  and  have  been  for  the  last  fifteen  or  sixteen  years. 
"  During  that  time,' I  have  known  Bishop  Doane  intimately,  perhaps 
"  more  intimately  than  any  other  person  in  the  town.  I  have  been 
"  in  the  habit  of  meeting  him  at  my  own  house  and  at  the  houses  of 
"  other  gentlemen,  but  chiefly  at  my  own." 

Upon  Specification  No.  30,  being  read  to  witness,  he  says — 

"  Until  these  charges  I  never  knew  or  heard  his  character  for 
"  sobriety  or  temperance  at  all  questioned.  I  never  knew  or  heard 
"  of  his  being  intoxicated.  I  have  never  seen  him  excited  by  or 
"  under  the  influence  of  intoxicating  liquors.  On  the  10th  of  Novem- 
"ber,  1851,  the  Bishop  was  at  my  house  about  11  o'clock,  A.  M. 
"  We  had  read  in  the  paper  of  the  death  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Croswell. 
"  The  paper  said,  of  New  York  :  and  we  were  in  hopes  it  was  not  the 
"  friend  of  the  Bishop.  After  the  Bishop  came  we  got  the  paper : 
"  but  he  told  me  it  was  a  mistake  of  the  paper,  that  it  was 
"  his  friend  Dr.  Croswell.  I  recollect  that  it  was  on  the  10th  of 
"  November,  '51,  from  reference  to  a  particular  diary  which  I 
"  keep,  and  to  which  I  have  referred.     He  remained  at  my  house, 


1!) 

:ing  about  the  death  of  bis  friend  for  about  half  an  hour.  He 
"  was  at  my  house  again  in  the  ev  nine  of  the  same  day,  from  about 
iL  halt' past  8,  to  about  half  past  10  o'clock,  lie  was  not  intoxicated 
"  when  at  my  boose,  either  in  the  morning  or  the  evening  of  that  day. 
"  I  have  made  inquiries  with  a  view  to  ascertain  whether  Bishop 
t;  Doane  was  on  board  the  Steamboat  Trenton  on  or  about  the  3  0th 
"Nov.,  '51.  t  inquired  of  Mr.  G-atzmer.  lie  informed  me  that 
"  the  Bishop  had  a  free  ticket,  and  that  they  kept  a  register  of  all 
"the  free  passengers.  Mr.  Gatzmer  had  the  books  examined  in  my 
11  presence  by  a  clerk,  and  the  name  of  Bishop  Doane  did  not  appear 
"  in  the  month  of  November  of  that  year.  He  also  informed  me, 
"  that  the  Steamboat  Trenton  stopped  running  that  year  on  the 
"  13th  of  Nov.  Mr.  Gratzmer  is  the  general  agent  at  Philadelphia, 
<kof  the  Camden  and  Amboy  Rail  Road  Co.,  and  the  Steamboat  Tren- 
"  ton,  belongs  to  that  Company.  I  also  on  the  same  day  inquired 
"  of  Capt.  Hinckle,  of  the  Steamboat  Trenton.  lie  said  'Bishop 
"  Doane  travelled  very  seldom  with  him  in  1^51,  and  that  he  always 
k-  saw  and  talked  to  him  when  on  board.  That  he  could  not  possi- 
"  bly  have  been  intoxicated  on  board  without  his  seeing  and  know- 
ing it;  and  that  he  never  saw  the  Bishop  intoxicated.'  I  know 
"  that  the  Bishop's  house  has  always  been  open  to  all  persons  visit- 
"ing  this  place  either  on  business  with  the  Church  or  the  schools, 
"  and  for  strangers  generally.  I  know  that  in  cases  of  sickness  in 
"  the  town,  where  wines  or  brandy  was  required,  it  has  been  the 
"  practice  to  send  to  the  Bishop,  and  they  were  always  furnished 
u  with  what  they  required.  If  the  Bishop  had  not  himself  what  was 
"  needed  by  the  poor,  he  would  beg  it  for  them  of  somebody  else." 
William  J.  Watson  testifies  as  follows.  "  I  reside  in  Philadel- 
phia. During  the  summer  season,  for  five  months  in  the  year  I 
le  in  Burlington,  near  Bishop  Doane.  I  have  known  Bishop 
"  Doane  ever  since  he  came  into  the  Diocese,  very  intimately  for  the 
11  last  sixteen  years.  Have  seen  him  frequently  at  his  house  and  at  my 
"  own.  During  this  time  he  has  occasionally  been  my  guest,  at  one 
"  time  for  three  or  four  weeks  in  succession.  Have  had  an  oppor- 
"  tunity  of  observing  and  becoming  acquainted  with  his  habits.  Bis 
'k  habits  for  sobriety  and  temperance  have  always  been  good.  Never 
"  heard  them  questioned,  until  the  last  presentment  was  made.  Have 
u  never  known  him  to  be  intoxicated,  or  to  be  excited  by,  or  under 
l'  the  influence  of  intoxicating  drinks.  I  have  never  witnessed  any 
11  thing  but  the  most  marked  moderation.  Has  been  in  the  habit  oi 
"entertaining  a  great  many  strangers  at  his  house,  whose  business 

-  called  them  to  Burlington;  particularly  persons  who  were  oon- 
"nected  with  the  Schools  and  Church.  In  the  company  of  his 
"  friends  the  Bishop  is  generally  cheerful  and  has  a  flue  flow  uf  spirits, 
<•'  uuless  flagged  by  over  exertion.  Some  three  or  four  days  since, 
"  I  endeavored  to  see  Capt.  Hinckle,  of  the  Steamboat  Trenton,  and 
"  much  to  my  regret,  learned  that   he  Was  quite  ill.     I  then  applied 


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"to  Mr.  Gatzmer,  who  referred  me  to  a  clerk  in  the  office.  He 
"  turned  to  some  of  the  books  of  the  Co.,  and  said,  that  Captain 
"  Engle  and  a  Mr.  Trowbridge  had  gone  over  the  books  some  time 
"  ago,  and  found  that  Bishop  Doane  was  not  a  passenger  on  board 
"  the  Trenton  during  the  month  of  November,  1851.  Yesterday  I 
"  called  up  and  saw  Capt.  Hinckle.  He  told  me  that  Bishop  Doane 
"  had  frequently  been  on  board  his  boat ;  that  if  anything  of  a  par- 
"  ticular  nature  had  happened  to  the  Bishop,  he  and  the  hands  on 
"  board  would  have  known  it ;  that  the  Bishop's  name  would  certainly 
"  have  been  registered  as  a  passenger  had  he  been  on  board  in  Nov. 
"  1851 ;  that  it  was  possible  the  name  of  a  passenger  might  be 
"  omitted ;  that  it  was  not  probable  that  a  gentleman  so  well  known 
"  as  Bishop  Doane  should  be  omitted.  Capt.  Hinckle  told  me  he 
"  had  never  seen  or  heard  of  the  Bishop's  being  intoxicated  on  board 
"  his  boat.  He  referred  me  to  Mr.  Copps,  the  bar  keeper  on  board 
"  the  boat.  I  saw  him.  He  said  Bishop  Doane  in  the  course  of 
"  his  travelling  on  the  Trenton  had  never  been  at  the  bar  more  than 
"  two  or  three  times;  and  then  had  got  nothing  but  a  glass  of  water. 
"  I  saw  from  the  books  that  the  Steamer  Trenton  ceased  to  run 
"  Nov.  13,  1851.  Capt.  Hinckle  is  not  able  to  leave  his  room  at 
"  this  time.' " 

George  Thompson  testifies  as  follows.  "  I  reside  in  the  Borough  of 
"  Bordentown.  Am  the  Mayor  of  the  Borough.  Some  years  ago  I 
"  heard  a  remark  made  in  the  Borough  of  Bordentown,  by  some  one 
"in  my  presence  that  he  thought  the  Bishop  was  a  little  tight,  or 
"  words  to  that  effect.  The  person  who  made  the  observation  was 
"  to  the  best  of  my  knowledge,  James  Thorn.  He  was  a  school 
"  teacher,  and  was  in  the  habit  of  posting  my  books.  Some  four  or 
"  five  months  back,  I  was  called  on  by  Bennington  Gill,  who  is  a 
"  customer  of  mine,  who  inquired  if  I  recollected  a  conversation 
"  that  took  place  in  my  store  with  regard  to  Bishop  Doane,  being 
"  intoxicated.  I  told  him  I  did  not  recollect  the  time,  but  that 
"the  person  who  made  the  observation  was  Mr.  Thorn,  who  then 
"  resided  at  Key  Port.  He  then  asked  if  I  could  not  fix  upon  the 
"  time  when  the  conversation  was  had,  and  I  told  him  I  could  not 
"  as  I  had  not  thought  about  it  afterwards.  Some  weeks  afterwards 
"  William  Halstead  called  on  me.  He  asked  me  if  I  could  recollect 
"when  this  conversation  took  place  by  Thorn.  Whether  I  could 
"name  the  month  or  year  it  took  place.  He  asked  me  if  it 
"was  the  day  Mr.  McKnight's  daughter,  was  married,  or  the  time 
"  Capt.  Shippen  was  married.  I  answered,  I  could  not  recollect  the 
"  time  it  took  place.  Some  two  or  three  weeks  after  this  time  Mr. 
"  Gill  again  called  and  inquired  if  I  recollected  anything  more  of 
"  the  subject  he  was  speaking  to  me  about.  I  told  him  no;  and  then 
"1  asked  him  if  he  had  heard  from  Mr.  Thorn.  He  said  he  had, 
"  but  that  Mr.  Thorn  did  not  recollect  anything  about  it.  I  told  him 
"  if  Mr.  Thorn  did  not  recollect  it  he  could  not  expect  me  to  recollect 


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"it.     Some  two  weeks  afterwards,  Win.  Halstead  and  the  Rev.  Mr. 

rman  called  at  my  store  and   made  the  same  inquiry  that   Mr. 

"Gill  had.     They  were  anxious  that  L  Bhonld  charge  my  memory 

"  as  to  the  time  of  the  transaction.     I  told  them  I  could  not  remem- 
At  the  time  the  observation  was  made  by  Mr.  Thorn,  I  was 

u  id  my  store.     I  then  stept  to  the  door,  and  saw  the  Bishop  and 

me  tour  or  five  other  gentlemen  passing.     Some  of  them  had  the 

"appearance  of  being  clergymen.     I  observed  nothing  more  than 

"  cheerfulness  on  their  part.  I  communicated  the  substance  of 
"what  I  have  here  stated  to  Mr.  Gill,  Mr.  Halstead  and  Mr.  Sher- 
"  man  in  the  conversation  before  stated.  The  observation  made  by 
'•Thorn  at  the  time  was  in  a  joking  derisive  manner.  I  have  never 
"  seen  the  Bishop  under  the  influence  of  liquor,  although  I  have 
''seen  him  many  times.  At  the  time  Mr.  Thorn  made  the  observa- 
"  tion,  I  could  see  all  he  could  see;  and  my  impression  is  the  obser- 
"  vation  was  caused  in  consequence  of  his,  the  Bishop's  cheerfulness, 
"  and  the  whole  company  being  laughing  and  talking." 

Charles  Parker,  Jr.,  tesHJU  s  as  follows.  "  I  was  clerk  of  the 
"  Steamboat  Trenton  in  1851.  Specification  No.  30,  being  read  to 
"  him,  he  says.  It  was  on  the  11th  of  November,  '51,  that  the  boat 
"  aforesaid  broke  down  during  the  morning  trip.  It  was  the  custom 
"  to  preserve  the  evidence  of  the  trips  made  by  all  the  free  and 
"  season  passengers.  Bishop  Doane  had  a  free  ticket  at  that  time. 
"A  record  of  these  vouchers  is  preserved  in  the  office.  I  have 
"searched  that  record  from  the  6th  to  the  11th  of  November,  1851, 
M  inclusive.  I  searched  it  yesterday.  I  find  no  evidence  whatever 
"of  Bishop  Doane  having  made  a  passage  between  or  on  the  days 
"  mentioned  above.  I  knew  the  Bishop  well,  and  think  his  name 
u  would  have  been  entered  had  he  been  in  the  boat  at  the  time 
"  charged.  I  have  seen  the  Bishop  at  various  times  and  in  different 
"boats  on  his  way  to  and  from  Philadelphia,  but  never  saw  him  at 
"  all  excited  by  liquor.  The  first  intimation  I  ever  had  upon  the 
"subject  was  hearing  it  read  from  a  newspaper  as  one  of  the  charges 
"in  the  presentment.  From  my  position  iu  the  boats  and  the  cha- 
racter of  the  Bishop,  had  he  ever  been  in  the  condition  cha 
"  while  on  board  the  boats,  I  think  there  is  no  doubt  I  should  have 
"  seen  or  heard  of  it.  I  saw  the  bar  keeper  of  the  Steamboat  Tren- 
"  ton  yesterday.  He  told  me  he  had  known  the  Bishop  for  eight  or 
"ten  years.  Never  knew  him  to  drink  anything  stronger  than 
"water  at  the  bar  of  the  boat.  He  was  the  bar  keeper  of  the  Tren- 
"tOD  in  1851." 

Joel  W.  CONDIT,  testifies  as  follows.  "I  reside  at  Newark.  I 
"know  Bishop  Doane.  I  have  known  him  intimately  since  1832. 
"In  his  first  visitation  he  stopped  at  my  house,  and  ever  since  my 
"  house  has  been  his  home  upon  all  occasions,  whenever  I  have  been  able 
"  to  make  it  so.  I  have  seen  him  very  frequently  at  his  own  house  and 


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"  in  the  houses  of  other  gentlemen.  My  intercourse  with  him  has  en- 
abled me  to  become  entirely  familiar  with  his  habits :  as  much  so  as  any 
"  one  not  a  member  of  his  family.  During  this  period  his  habits  have 
"  been  strictly  sober  and  temperate.  I  have  never  seen  or  known  him 
"  to  be  in  the  least  intoxicated  during  this  time.  I  have  never  known 
"  him  to  make  an  improper  or  immoderate  use  of  intoxicating  liqours. 
"  I  have  never  seen  him  in  the  least  excited  by  liquor.  I  have  seen 
"the  Bishop  at  his  house  at  all  hours  of  the  day  and  all  hours  of 
"  the  night,  in  sickness  and  in  health,  in  joy  and  in  sorrow.  He  is 
"  remarkably  cheerful  in  the  society  of  his  own  family  and  friends, 
"  and  often  indulges  in  a  loud  and  hearty  laugh.  As  far  as  my  ob- 
"  servation  goes,  his  house  has  always  been  open  to  visitors,  and  as 
"  far  as  I  reccollect,  I  have  never  been  there  except  during  his  ill— 
"  ness,  when  there  were  not  other  visitors.  I  have  never  seen  at  his 
"  table  a  larger  supply  of  wines  or  liquors  than  was  becoming  one  in 
"  his  position.  I  never  heard  the  Bishop  charged  with  intemperance 
"  until  after  the  2nd  presentment  was  made.  It  has  been  the  cus- 
"  torn  of  the  Bishop  until  1849,  when  the  Convention  of  the  Diocese 
"of  New  Jersey  met  at  Burlington,  on  the  1st  day  to  entertain  the 
"  clergy,  and  the  2nd  day,  the  laity  at  his  house. 

Tnos.  K.  Wilson  testifies  as  follows.  "I  reside  in  Trenton.  I 
"  am  a  vestryman  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  Trenton,  and  Superintend- 
"  ant  of  the  Sunday  School.  I  know  Bishop  Doane.  I  became  ac- 
quainted with  him  in  the  spring  of  1848.  Since  then  I  have 
"  known  him  very  intimately.  I  have  met  him  always  upon  his 
"  visitations  to  St.  Paul's  Church,  and  also  a  few  times  at  his  own 
"  house.  Have  generally  dined  with  him,  when  he  has  visited  St. 
"  Paul's  Church,  at  the  house  of  Capt.  Hunt.  Since  my  acquaint- 
"  ance  with  him  his  character  for  sobriety  and  temperance  has  been 
"unquestioned.  I  have  never  seen  him  intoxicated,  or  in  the 
"  slightest  degree  excited  by  the  use  of  intoxicating  drinks.  His 
"  spirits  are  naturally  cheerful  and  lively. " 

Your  Committee,  in  justice  to  the  accused,  and  in  the  discharge 
of  their  duties,  have  thus  stated  and  recorded  all  the  evidence  taken 
before  them  bearing  on  this,  the  principal  charge  against  your 
Bishop.  It  is  all  negative  testimony.  The  charge  stands  unsus- 
tained,  naked,  alone.  Its  authors  have  forsaken  it.  The  accusers 
will  not  acknowledge  it.  No  proof  to  show  how  or  why  it  was  made. 
But  if  human  testimony  can  disprove  the  charge,  show  it  false  and 
untrue  in  all  its  parts,  it  has  been  done,  triumphantly  done.  The 
testimony  clearly  proves  that  Bishop  Doane  since  he  has  been  in 
the  Diocese  has  been  at  all  times,  day  and  night,  at  all  seasons,  at  home 
and  abroad,  in  all  situations,  in  sickness  and  in  health,  in  joy  and 
in  sorrow,  a  temperate  and  sober  man,  and  has  never  been  seen  or 
known  to  be  intoxicated,  and  that  such  a  charge  was  never  heard  of 
until  since  this  Presentment.  That  his  table  has  only  been  supplied 
with  wines  and  liquors,  to  the  extent  his  position  required,  to  meet 


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the  calls  of  hospitality;  thai  his  re  "open  to  the  calls  of 

Ick  of  the  two  institutions,  St.  Mary's  Hall  and  Burlington 
College,  nnder  the  direction  of  his  family  physician ;  that  the  poor 
and  needy,  sick  and  afflicted,  received  the  Bame  advice;  were  fed, 
clothed,  sustained  and  comforted  from  the  same  source:  and  when 
their  drafts  or  his  misfortune  had  diminished  these  means,  your 
Bishop  supplied  their  wants  by  begging  from  others.  That  the  case 
charged  on  board  the  Steamboat,  and  at  Borden  town,  are  negatived 
by  the  conclusive  evidence  of  your  Bishop's  temperate  habits  of 
life.  By  the  evidence  he  was  not  on  board  the  boat,  on  or  about 
the  time  charged,  and  the  strong  presumptive  proof,  if  it  had 
occurred  the  officers  and  hands  of  the  boat  or  some  of  the 
numerous  passengers  on  such  a  thoroughfare  would  have  seen, 
or  at  least  heard  of  it.  That  at  Bordentovm  is  also  fully  dis- 
proved by  the  Mayor  of  that  Borough,  whose  attention  was  called 
at  the  time,  probably  meant  in  the  charges,  to  the  Bishop  pass- 
ing in  the  public  street,  in  company  with  some  four  or  five  other 
gentlemen,  some  of  them  having  the  appearance  of  Clergymen  and 
exhibiting  nothing  mors  than  cheerfulness  on  their  part.  And  the 
witness'  impression  is,  the  observation  made  by  Thorn,  then  in  his, 
witness'  presence,  in  a  joking,  derisive  manner  of  the  Bishop,  and 
probably  the  foundation  of  this  charge,  was  caused  in  consequence 
of  his,  the  Bishop's,  cheerfulness;  the  whole  company  being 
laughing  and    talkiug :    the  witness    seeing    at    the    time    all    that 

coo  o 

Thorn  could  see. 

This  witness  also  proves  that  Mr.  Bennington  Gill,  one  of  the  ac- 
cusers of  the  Bishop,  admitted  to  him  he  had  heard  from  Mr.  Thorn 
wh»  had  made  the  insinuation  against  the  Bishop  in  a  joking,  deri- 
sive manner,  and  that  he,  Thorn,  could  not  recollect  anything  about 
ir.  And  this  witness  further  proves  that  two  of  the  accusers  at  least, 
Messrs.  Halstead  and  (rill,  with  the  Rev.  Mr.  Sherman,  knew  of 
all  these  facts  before  this  new  presentment  was  made.  Your  Com- 
mittee see  no  grouuds  for  presentment  under  this  charge  against 
your  Bishop  :  unless  it  be  for  his  kind  hospitalities,  his  extensive 
charities  to  the  poor  and  needy,  sick  and  afflicted,  his  cheerfulness 
of  character  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties  under  the  weight  of  cares 

c  o 

and  sorrows  pressing  upon  him  ;  to  establish  which  the  recipients  of 
his  kindness  and  his  bounty  would  crowd  your  Court  of  Bishops 
with  their  thanks  and  blessings  for  him. 

Specification  31. — In   regard  to  this  specification,  no  proof  has 
been  offered  to  sustain  it.     Like  the  preceding,  it  stands  unsupported 
by  any  proof.      Joseph    Deacon,   the  party    named   in  it,  though   re- 
1  to  appear  before  the  Committee  by  notice,  did  not  appear. 
The  a  in  t<i  have  forsaken  or  abandoned  it — it  is  left  alone 

in  its  naked  deformity,  [ts  authors  Beem  to  have  attempted  to 
clothe  its  deformity  in  language   to  iix  a  stigma,  even  if  abandoned, 


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on  your  Bishop;  and  to  pander  to  the  morbid  taste  of  the  irreligious 
and  vulgar. 

The  only  evidence  on  the  charge  is  of  a  negative  character.  The 
witnesses  whose  testimony  has  established  under  the  other  specifica- 
tion the  good  and  temperate  habits  of  your  Bishop,  go  far  to  show 
the  improbability  of  this  charge.  By  the  testimony  of  Robert  B. 
Aertsen,  it  is  in  evidence,  upon  this  specification  being  read  to  the 
witness,  that  "  one  day  last  week  I  was  walking  with  Joseph  Dea- 
con, and  he  of  his  own  accord  introduced  the  subject  of  that  (this) 
particular  specification,  and  remarked  to  me  that  the  charge  of  drink- 
ing cider  brandy  with  the  Bishop  under  a  tree  was  all  a  positive  lie, 
and  that  he  would  defy  anybody  to  say  they  ever  saw  him  drunk."* 

The  Rev.  Samuel  L.  Southard  testifies  upon  this  same  specifica- 
tion being  read  to  him,  that  "  at  the  time  the  Court  of  Bishops  were 
"  in  session  in  Burlington,  I  heard  Mr.  Joseph  Deacon  say  in  the 
"  presence  of  several  gentlemen,  that  if  any  man  said  he  ever  got 
"  drunk  on  cider  brandy,  or  anything  else,  it  was  a  lie;  and  further, 
*'  that  if  any  man  says  that  he  ever  drank  cider  brandy  with  Bishop 
"  Doane  under  a  tree,  it  was  a  lie."  From  this  evidence  it  seems  fully 
proved  that  the  material  parts  of  this  charge,  are  not  true.  The 
proof  is,  Joseph  Deacon  himself  says  it  is  "  a  lie  :"  and  Joseph  Dea- 
con ought  to  know. 

If  so,  and  the  evidence  not  disclosing  who  the  author  or  authors 
are,  the  reading  world  may  say,  if  the  testimony  is  silent  on  this 
point,  the  record  of  accusation  standing  as  it  does,  unexplained  by 
those  who  made  it,  will  indicate  who  are  guilty. 

Your  Committee  have  now  gone  through  these  new  specifications, 
and  have  given  the  Convention  the  result  of  their  investigation. 
Of  this  Report  they  desire  the  evidence  and  exhibits  should  form 
a  part. 

From  all  these,  your  Committee  have  arrived  at  the  conclusion 
that  the  Bishop  is  not  guilty  of  crime  or  immorality  as  in  these  new 
matters  of  presentment  are  set  forth  and  charged,  and  that  there  are 
no  good  grounds  for  presentment. 

Your  Committee  cannot,  in  closing  this  their  Report,  repress  the 
expression  of  the  fact  that  the  evidence  in  this  case  has  produced  on 
their  minds  no  diminution  of  their  confidence  in  the  integrity  and 
purity  of  your  Bishop;  on  the  contrary,  increased  love  and  respect 
for  him  :  for  it  has  presented  to  them  and  to  the  world,  drawn  from 
their  modest  hiding  places,  habitual  and  beautiful  examples,  in  him, 
of  that  virtue,  greater  than  all  others,  Charity. 

All  which  is  respectfully  submitted. 

By  order  of  the  Committee, 

Daniel  B.  Ryall,  Chairman. 

Dated  Burlington,  Nov.  30tf,  1852. 


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T  E  STIMO  N  Y  . 

Deposition  of  witnesses  taken  before  the  Committee  of  Investiga- 
tion of  the  new  matters  contained  in  a  Presentment  lately  read  before 
the  Court  of  Bishops,  signed  by  the  Right  Rev.  Bishops  of  Virginia, 
Maine  and  Ohio,  against  the  Right  Rev.  George  Washington  Doane, 
Bishop  of  New  Jersey,  dated  the  :22nd  of  July,  1S52,  pursuant  to 
Resolutions  of  the  Special  Diocesan  Convention  of  New  Jersey,  held 
at  Newark,  on  the  27th  day  of  October,  A.  D.,  1852  :  said  depo- 
sitions taken  pursuant  to  notice,  commencing  on  the  15th  day  of 
December,  A.  D.,  1852,  and  continued  from  day  to  day  until  the 
18th  of  December,  lS-")2,  inclusive,  pursuant  to  regular  adjourn- 
ments, at  the  Vestry-room  in  St.  Mary's  Church,  in  the  City  of 
Burlington,  N.  J.  DANIEL  B.  RYALL, 

Chairman  of  Committee. 

List  of  Names  of  Witnesses  Examined. 


1. 

Dr.  Joseph  Parrish 

from  pages 

1 

to 

2 

9 

—  • 

Ann  Eliza  Kelley 

« 

2 

to 

3 

3. 

Rev.  R.  J.  Germain 

a 

4 

to 

4 

4. 

Robert  B.  Aertsen,  Esq. 

(C 

4 

to 

5 

5. 

Rev.  Samuel  L.  Southard 

a 

5 

to 

6 

G. 

Capt.  Frederick  Engle 

u 

7 

to 

9 

7. 

Win.  J.  Watson,  Esq. 

it 

9 

to 

11 

B. 

Geo.  Thompson,  Esq. 

it 

11 

to 

13 

9. 

Charles  Darker,  Jr. 

(( 

13 

to 

14 

10. 

Joel  W.  Condit,  Esq. 

u 

14 

to 

15 

11. 

Thomas  R.  Wilson 

it 

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Dr.  Joseph  Parrish,  being  duly  affirmed,  doth  declare  and  say  : 
I  am  a  practising  physician,  residing  in  the  city  of  Burlington  ;  have 
resided  here  for  nearly  nine  years.  1  know  Bishop  Doane  intimately. 
1  have  been  his  family  physician  for  about  five  years  last.  1  have 
seen  and  had  almost  daily  intercourse  for  several  years  with  him, 
being  the  physician  of  both  the  schools — St.  Mary's  Hall  and  Bur- 
lington College.  I  have  attended  the  Bishop  through  some  severe 
spells  of  illness.  I  have  never  seen  the  Bishop  any  other  than 
sober,  and  1  have  been  in  his  family  and  at  his  table  very  frequently. 
1  have  never  seen  him  when  I  thought  him  to  be  excited  at  all  by 
liquor.  J  have  frequently  prescribed  liquors  as  stimulants  to  the 
Bishop.  I  told  the  Bishop  some  time  ago  that  I  did  not  think  he 
took  enough-  and  my  reason  for  thinking  so  was,  that  the  excessive 
tax  upon  him,  physically  and  mentally,  required  more  stimulant  than 
be   was   taking.     1  know  that  the  'Bishop  has  been  in   the  habit  of 


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supplying  the  poor  of  the  town  frequently  with  wines  and  liquors  in 
cases  of  sickness.  When  I  was  first  employed  at  the  schools,  I  was 
told  by  Bishop  Doane  to  consider  his  wines  and  liquors  always  under 
my  command  for  the  use  of  persons  at  the  schools,  and  for  all  needy 
persons  in  the  town ;  and  I  have  always  acted  under  this  per- 
mission, and  have  made  large  drafts  upon  it,  as  circumstances  requi- 
red. I  have  heard  from  Dr.  Cole,  now  deceased,  that  this  state  of 
things  had  existed  for  years  before.  Dr.  Cole  was  the  Bishop's 
familyphysician  before.  The  very  severe  illness  which  the  Bishop  had, 
in  '49,  was  not  brought  on  by  the  use  of  intoxicating  liquor,  nor  has  his 
health  ever,  in  my  opinion,  been  impaired  by  it  since  I  have  known 
him.  I  am  a  strict  temperance  man  in  principle  and  in  habits.  I 
have  frequently  dined  at  the  Bishop's  table.  (Upon  the  30th  specifi- 
cation being  read  to  witness,  he  says,)  I  have  never  seen  Bishop 
Doane  use  intoxicating  liquors  to  excess.  I  have  seen  him  not  only 
nearly  daily,  but  at  all  hours  of  the  day  without  reserve. 

JOSEPH  PARRTSH. 
Affirmed  and  subscribed  before  me,  this  16th  November,  1852. 

Daniel  B.  Ryall,  M.  C.  C. 

Ann  Eliza  Kelley  being  duly  sworn  according  to  law,  doth 
declare  and  say  :  I  have  lived  in  Burlington  for  18  or  20  years,  and 
still  reside  here.  I  have  known  Bishop  Doane  ever  since  he  first  came 
to  Burlington  to  reside.  My  son  was  very  ill  at  one  time,  and  Dr. 
Cole  ordered  him  wine  and  wine-whey  to  drink,  and  he  told  me  I  could 
not  get  any  that  was  fit  for  him,  except  what  Bishop  Doane  had  ; 
that  he  had  some  that  was  very  old,  and  that  I  must  send  there  and 
get  it;  that  he  knew  I  would  be  very  welcome  to  as  much  as  I 
wanted.  I  sent  several  times  and  got  all  that  I  needed,  as  much  as 
10  or  12  bottles.  I  have  frequently  heard  people  in  town  speak  of 
getting  liquor  from  the  Bishop's  in  case  of  sickness.  I  have  no 
doubt  that  people  have  been  in  the  habit  of  sending  there  and 
getting  in  cases  of  sickness.  ANN  ELIZA  KELLEY. 

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  the  16th  November,  18-32. 

Daniel  B.  Ryall,  JM.  C.  C. 

Rev.  R.  J.  Germain  being  duly  sworn  according  to  law,  doth 
declare  and  say  :  I  have  known  Bishop  Doane  about  15  years.  lam 
a  clergyman  of  this  Diocese.  During  the  last  13  years  my  relations 
with  the  Bishop  have  been  very  intimate.  I  have  been  for  this  time 
Principal  of  St.  Mary's  Hall,  which  has  brought  me  into  daily  and 
almost  hourly  intercourse  with  him,  and  I  have  very  frequently  been 
a  guest  at  his  house.  I  have  gone  with  him  a  good  deal  in  his  visi- 
tations. I  have  not  at  any  time  seen  the  Bishop  excited  by  intoxi- 
cating liquor.  He  has  always  been  temperate  and  sober  when  I 
have  seen  him.  He  has  been  in  the  habit  of  entertaining  a  great 
deal  of  company  since  he  lived  in  Burlington.  His  house  and  his 
table  have  been  open  to  all  visiting  the   schools,  and  to  his   many 


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friends  and  acquaintances.  Scarcely  a  day  but  some  persons 
his  own  family  dine  with  him.  I  do  not  consider  that  his  table  baa 
been  supplied  with  vinous  or  spirituous  liquors  to  a  greater  extent  than 
his  position  required.  I  have  no  doubt  from  what  T  know  and  have 
heard,  that  the  poor  of  the  town  are  in  the  habit  of  frequently 
ing  and  getting  liquors  from  the  Bishop  in  cases  of  Bickness.  The 
Hall,  I  know,  has  been  largely  supplied  from  then.'  in  cases  of 
sickness.  REUBEN  J.  GERMAIN. 

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  this  16th  November,  1852. 

Daniel  B.  Ryall,  M.  C.  C. 

Robert  B.  Aertsen  being  duly  sworn  according  to  law,  doth 
declare  and  say  :  I  have  been  acquainted  more  or  less  intimately  with 
Bishop  Doane  since  ls:J4,  and  very  intimately  since  1849.  The 
Bishop  was  very  frequently  my  guest,  while  I  lived  at  Salem,  up  to 
1849,  and  since  that  time  I  have  had  constant  intercourse  with  his 
family  here.  (Upon  specification  No.  30  being  read  to  witness,  he 
says,)  I  have  never  seen  Bishop  Doane  use  intoxicating  drinks  to  any 
undue  excess.  I  believe  his  habits  to  be  exceedingly  temperate. 
His  doors  and  table  are  always  open  to  every  person  visiting  the  in- 
stitutions or  Riverside.  The  poor  of  the  towu  are  in  the  constant 
habit  of  applying  to  the  Bishop  for  relief  in  all  cases,  and  always  get 
their  wants  supplied  with  food  and  clothing. 

(Upon  specification  No.  31  being  read  to  witness,  he  says,)  One  day 
last  week,  I  was  walking  with  Joseph  Deacon,  and  he  of  his  own 
accord  introduced  the  subject  of  that  particular  specification,  remarked 
to  mo,  that  the  charge  of  drinking  cider-brandy  with  the  Bishop 
under  a  tree  was  all  a  positive  lie,  and  that  he  would  defy  any  body 
to  say  that  they  ever  saw  him  drunk. 

ROBERT  B.  AERTSEN. 

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  this  16th  November,  1852. 

Daniel  B.  Ryall,  M.  C  C. 

Rev.  Samuel  L.  Southard  being  duly  sworn  according  to  law, 
doth  declare  and  say  :  (Upon  the  30th  specification  being  read  to 
witness,  he  says  :)  I  have  known  Bishop  Doane  intimately  for  about 
10  years.  His  house  has  always  been  my  home  when  I  have  been  in 
Burlington.  I  have  travelled  with  him  a  good  deal,  and  he  has  also 
staid  at  my  house.  I  have  beeu  upon  terms  with  him  of  cm  ire 
unreserve  and  know  his  habits  well.  I  have  never  known  him  in- 
temperate in  the  use  of  wines  or  liquors.  I  have  known  a  great 
deal  of  company  entertained  at  Riverside,  and  I  do  not  remember 
ever  sitting  down  to  the  dinner-table  but  once,  when  only  his  family 
were  present.  I  have  never  known  the  table  supplied  with  more 
wine  in  proportion  to  the  number  of  the  guests,  than  those  of  other 
gentlemen  with  whom  I  have  dined.  I  have  dined  at  his  table  very 
often  witli  from  0  to  '20  besides  his  family,  those  persons  being  often 
the  parents  or  friends  of  children  at  the  schools.   His  house  was  always 


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open  to  all  persons  who  came  to  Burlington  upon  business  connected 
with  the  Church  or  the  schools.  On  several  occasions  his  house  has 
been  so  full  at  night,  that  even  I  was  sent  to  sleep  elsewhere.  I 
have  often  dined  with  the  Bishop  at  the  houses  of  mutual  friends  in 
the  Diocese  and  elsewhere,  and  have  observed  him  closely,  and  I 
never  have  seen  him  use  wines  or  liquors  to  excess  or  unduly  exci- 
ted by  the  use  of  them. 

(Upon  specification  No.  31  being  read  to  witness,  he  says :)  At 
the  time  the  Court  of  Bishops  were  in  session  in  Burlington,  I  heard 
Mr.  Joseph  Deacon  say,  in  the  presence  of  several  gentlemen,  that  if 
any  man  said  he  ever  got  drunk  on  cider  brandy,  or  anything  else, 
it  was  a  lie,  and  further,  that  if  any  man  says  he  ever  drank  cider- 
brandy  with  Bishop  Doane  under  a  tree,  it  was  a  lie. 

SAML.  L.  SOUTHARD. 
Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  this  16th  day  of  November,  1852. 

Daniel  B.  Ryall,  M.  C.  C. 

Frederick  Engle  being  duly  sworn  according  to  law,  doth 
declare  and  say  :  I  am  a  resident  of  Burlington  city,  and  have  been 
for  the  last  15  or  16  years.  During  that  time  I  have  known  Bishop 
Doane  intimately,  perhaps  more  intimately  than  any  other  person  in 
the  town.  I  have  been  in  the  habit  of  meeting  him  at  my  own  house 
and  at  the  house  of  other  gentlemen,  but  chiefly  at  my  own.  (Spe- 
cification, No.  30,  being  read  to  witness,  he  says :)  Until  these 
charges,  I  never  knew  or  heard  his  character  for  sobriety  and  tem- 
perance at  all  questioned.  I  never  knew  or  heard  of  his  being  intoxi- 
cated. I  have  never  seen  him  excited  by,  or  under  the  influence  of, 
intoxicating  liquors.  On  the  10th  Nov.,  1851,  the  Bishop  was  at 
my  house,  about  11  o'clock,  A.  M.  We  had  read  iu  the  paper  of 
the  death  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Croswell.  The  paper  said,  of  New  York, 
and  we  were  in  hopes  it  was  not  the  friend  of  the  Bishop.  After 
the  Bishop  came,  we  got  the  paper,  but  he  told  me  it  was  a  mistake 
of  the  paper  ;  that  it  was  his  friend  Dr.  Croswell.  I  recollect  that  it 
was  on  the  10th  of  November,  '51,  from  reference  to  a  particular 
diary  which  I  keep,  and  to  which  I  have  referred.  He  remained  at 
my  house,  talking  about  the  death  of  his  friend,  for  about  half  an 
hour.  He  was  at  my  house  again  in  the  evening  of  the  same  day, 
from  about  half  past  8  to  about  half  past  10  o'clock.  He  was  not 
intoxicated  when  at  my  house,  either  in  the  morning  or  evening  of 
that  day.  I  have  made  inquiries  with  a  view  to  ascertain  whether 
Bishop  Doane  was  on  board  the  steamboat  Trenton,  on  or  about  the 
10th  of  November,  '51.  I  inquired  of  Mr.  Gatzmer,  and  he  informed 
me  that  the  Bishop  had  a  free  ticket,  and  that  they  kept  a  register 
of  all  the  free  passengers.  Mr.  Gatzmer  had  the  books  examined  by  a 
clerk  in  my  presence,  and  the  name  of  Bishop  Doane  did  not  appear 
in  the  month  of  November  of  that  year.  He  also  informed  me  that 
the  steamboat  Trenton  stopped  running  that  year  on  the  lothNovein- 


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ber.  Mr.  Gatzmer  is  the  general  agent,  at  Philadelphia,  of  the  Camden 
and  Amboy  Railroad  Co.,  and  the  Bteamboat Trenton  belongs  to  that 
company.  I  also,  on  the  same  day,  inquired  of  Capt.  Ilinckle,  of  [he 
Bteamboat  Trenton.  He  said  that  Bishop  Doane  travelled  very 
seldom  with  him  in  1851,  and  that  he  always  saw  and  talked  to  him 

when  08  boardj   that  he  could  not  possibly  have  been  intoxicated  on 

board,  without  his  seeing  him  and  knowing  it,  and  that  lie  never 
saw  the  Bishop  intoxicated.  I  know  that  the  Bishop's  house  has 
always  been  open  to  all  persons  visiting  this  place,  either  on  business 
with  the  Church  or  the  schools,  and  for  strangers  generally.  I 
know  that  in  cases  of  sickness  in  the  town,  where  wines  or  brandies 
were  required,  it  has  been  the  practice  to  send  to  the  Bishop,  and 
they  were  always  furnished  with  what  they  required.  If  the  Bishop 
had  not  himself  what  was  needed  by  the  poor,  he  would  beg  it  for 
them  of  some  body  else.  F.  ENCLE. 

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  this  10th  November,  1852. 

Daniel  B.  Hyall,  M.  C.  C. 

WlLUAM  J.  WATSON  being  duly  sworn  according  to  law,  upon 
his  oath  saith — I  reside  in  Philadelphia.  During  the  summer  season, 
for  five  months  in  the  year,  I  reside  in  Burlington,  near  Bishop  Doane. 
I  have  known  Bishop  Doane  ever  since  he  came  into  the  diocese, 
very  intimately  for  the  last  sixteen  years.  Have  seen  him  frequently 
at  his  house  and  my  own.  During  this  time,  he  has  occasionally  been 
my  guest;  at  one  time  for  three  or  four  weeks  in  succession.  Have 
had  an  opportunity  of  observing  and  becoming  acquainted  with  his 
habits.  His  habits  for  sobriety  and  temperance  have  always  been 
good.  Never  heard  them  questioned  until  the  last  presentment  was 
made.  Have  never  known  him  to  be  intoxicated,  or  to  be  excited  by, 
or  under  the  influence  of  intoxicating  drinks.  I  have  never  witness- 
ed any  thing  but  the  most  marked  moderation.  Has  been  in  the  habit 
of  entertaining  a  great  many  strangers  at  his  house,  whose  business 
has  called  them  to  Burlington.  Particularly  persons  who  were  con- 
nected with  the  schools  and  Church.  In  the  company  of  his  friends 
the  Bishop  is  generally  cheerful  and  has  a  fine  flow  of  spirits,  unless 
flagged  by  over  exertion.  Some  three  or  four  days  since,  [  endeavour- 
ed to  see  Capt.  Ilinckle,  of  the  steamboat  Trenton,  and  much  to  my 
regret  learned  that  he  was  quite  ill.  I  then  applied  to  .Mr.  Grata- 
mer,  who  referred  me  to  a  clerk  in  the  office.  He  turned  to  some 
of  the  books  of  the  Company,  and  said  that  Capt.  Engle  and  a  Mr. 
Trowbridge  had  gone  over  the  books  some  time  ago,  and  found  that 
Bishop  Doane  was  not  a  passenger  on  board  the  Trenton  during  the 
month  of  November,  1851.  Yesterday  I  called  up  and  saw  Capt. 
Ilinckle.  He  told  me  that  Bishop  Doane  had  frequently  been  on 
board  his  boat;  that  if  anything  of  a  particular  nature  had  happen- 
ed to  the  Bishop  he  and  the  hands  on  board  would  have  kuowu  it. 
That  the  Bishop's  name  would  certainly  have  been  registered 


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passenger, had  he  been  on  board  in  November  1851 ;  that  it  was  possi- 
ble the  name  of  a  passenger  might  be  omitted,  but  that  it  was  not 
probable  that  a  gentleman  so  well  known  as  Bishop  Doane  would  be 
omitted.  Capt.  Hinckle  told  me  he  had  never  seen  or  heard  of  the 
Bishop's  being  intoxicated  on  board  his  boat.  He  referred  me  to  Mr. 
Copps,  the  bar  keeper  on  board  the  boat.  I  saw  him.  He  said 
Bishop  Doane,  in  the  course  of  his  travelling  on  the  Trenton,  hagl 
never  been  at  the  bar  more  than  two  or  three  times,  and  then  had  got 
nothing  but  a  glass  of  water.  I  saw  from  the  books  that  the  steamer 
Trenton,  ceased  to  run  November  13;  1*851.  Capt.  Hinckle  is  not 
able  to  leave  his  room  at  this  time. 

WM.  J.  WATSON. 
Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  the  lGth  November,  1852. 

Danied  B.  By  all,  M.  C.  C. 

George  Thompson  being  duly  sworn,  doth  depose  and  say — I 
reside  in  the  Borough  of  Bordentown  •  am  the  Mayor  of  the  Borough. 
Some  years  ago,  I  heard  a  remark  made  in  the  Borough  of  Borden- 
town, by  some  one  in  my  presence,  that  he  thought  the  Bishop  was 
a  little  tight,  or  words  to  that  effect.  The  person  who  made  the  ob- 
servation was,  to  the  best  of  my  knowledge,  James  Thorn.  He  was 
a  school  teacher,  and  was  in  the  habit  of  posting  my  books.  Some 
four  or  five  months  back,  I  was  called  on  by  Bennington  Gill,  who  is  a 
customer  of  mine,  who  enquired  if  I  recollected  a  conversation  that 
took  place  in  my  store,  with  regard  to  Bishop  Doane's  being  intoxi- 
cated. I  told  him  I  did  not  recollect  the  time,  but  that  the  person 
who  made  the  observation  was  Mr.  Thorn,  who  then  resided  at  Key- 
port.  He  then  asked  if  I  could  not  fix  upon  the  time  when  this 
conversation  was  had,  and  I  told  him  I  could  not,  as  I  had  not  thought 
about  it  afterwards.  Some  weeks  afterwards,  William  Halstead  called 
on  me.  He  asked  me  if  I  could  recollect  when  this  conversation  took 
place  with  Thorn ;  whether  I  could  name  the  month  or  year  it  took 
place.  He  asked  me  if  it  was  the  day  Mr.  McKnight's  daughter 
was  married,  or  the  time  Capt.  Shippen  was  married.  I  answered 
that  I  could  not  recollect  the  time  it  took  place.  Some  two  or  three 
weeks  after  this  time,  Mr.  Gill  again  called  and  enquired  if  I  recol- 
lected anything  more  of  the  subject  he  was  speaking  to  me  about.  I 
told  him  no,  and  then  I  asked  him  if  he  had  heard  from  Mr.  Thorn. 
He  said  he  had ;  but  that  Mr.  Thorn  did  not  recollect  any  thing 
about  it.  I  told  him  if  Mr.  Thorn  did  not  recollect  it  he  could  not 
expect  me  to  recollect  it.  Some  two  weeks  afterward,  William  Hal- 
stead  and  the  Rev.  Mr.  Sherman  called  at  my  store  and  made  the 
same  enquiry  that  Mr.  Gill  had.  They  were  anxious  that  I  should 
charge  my  memory  as  to  the  time  of  the  transaction.  I  told  them  I 
could  not  remember.  At  the  time  the  observation  was  made  by  Mr. 
Thorn  I  was  in  my  store ;  I  then  stept  to  the  door  and  saw  the  Bish- 
op and  some  four  or  five  other  gentlemen  passing.     Some  of  them 


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had  tin1  appearance  of  being  Clergymen.  I  observed  nothing  more 
than  cheerfulness  on  their  part.  1  communicated  the  substance  of 
what  I  have  here  Btated  to  Mr.  (Jill,  Mr.  Halstead  and  Mr.  Sherman, 

in  the  conversation  before  .stated.  The  observation  made  by  Thorn, 
at  the  time  was  ill  a  joking,  derisive  manner.  1  have  never  seen  the 
Bishop  under  the  influence  of  liquor,  although  1  have  Been  him  many 
times.  At  the  time  Mr.  Thorn  made  the  observation,  I  could  see 
all  he  could  see,  and  my  impression  is,  the  observation  was  caused  iu 
quence  of  his  (the  Bishop's)  cheerfulness,  and  the  whole  com- 
pany being  laughiug  and  talking. 

GEO.  W.  THOMPSON. 
Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  this  17th  Nov.,  1852. 

Daniel  13.  Kyall,  M.  C.  C. 

Charles  Parker,  Jr.,  being  duly  sworn,  saith — I  was  clerk  of 
the  steamboat  Trenton  iu  1851.  Specification  No.  30  having  been 
read  to  the  witness,  he  says — It  was  on  the  11th  of  Nov.  1851,  that 
the  boat  aforesaid  broke  down  during  the  morning  trip.  It  was  the 
custom  to  preserve  the  evidences  of  the  trips  made  by  the  free  sea- 
sou  passengers.  Bishop  Doane  had  a  free  ticket  at  that  time.  A 
record  of  these  vouchers  is  preserved  in  the  office.  I  have  searched 
that  record  from  the  Gth  to  the  11th  Nov.  1851,  inclusive.  I 
searched  it  yesterday.  I  find  no  evidence  whatever  of  Bishop 
Doaue  having  made  a  passage  between,  or  on,  the  days  mentioned 
above.  I  knew  the  Bishop  well  and  think  his  name  would  have  been 
entered  had  he  been  on  the  boat  at  the  time  charged.  I  have  seen 
the  Bishop  at  various  times  and  on  different  boats  on  his  way  to  and 
from  Philadelphia,  but  never  knew  him  at  all  excited  by  liquor.  The 
first  intimation  I  ever  had  upon  the  subject  was  hearing  it  read  from 
a  newspaper,  as  one  of  the  charges  in  the  presentment.  From  my 
position  in  the  boats,  and  the  character  of  the  Bishop,  had  he  ever 
been,  while  on  board  the  boats,  in  the  condition  charged,  1  think  there 
is  no  doubt,  I  should  have  seen  or  heard  of  it.  I  saw  the  bar-keeper 
of  the  steamboat  Trenton;  he  told  mo  he  had  known  the  Bishop  for 
eight  or  ten  years ;  never  knew  him  to  drink  any  thing  stronger  than 
water  at  the  bar  of  the  boat,  lie  was  the  bar  keeper  of  the  Trenton 
in  L851.  CHAS.  PARKER,  Jr. 

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  this  17th  November,  1852. 

Daniel  B.  Rtall,  M.  C.  C. 

Joel  W.  Condit  being  duly  sworn  according  to  law,  doth  declare 
and  say — I  reside  at  Newark.  I  know  Bishop  Doane.  I  have 
known  him  intimately  since  18o'2.  In  his  first  visitation  he  stopped 
at  my  house,  and  ever  since,  my  house  has  been  his  home  upon  all 
Occasions,  whenever  I  have  been  able  to  make  it  so.  1  have  seen  him 
very  frequently  at  his  own  house  and  in  the  houses  of  other  gentle- 
men. .My  intercourse  with  him  has  enabled  me  to  become  entirely 
familiar  with  his  habits,  as  much  so  as  any  oue  not  a  member  of  his 


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family.  Daring  this  period,  his  habits  have  been  strictly  sober  and 
temperate.  I  have  never  seen  or  known  him  to  be  in  the  least  intox- 
icated during  this  time.  I  have  never  known  him  to  make  an  im- 
proper or  immoderate  use  of  intoxicating  liquors.  I  have  never  seen 
him  in  the  least  excited  by  liquor.  I  have  seen  the  Bishop  at  his 
house,  at  all  hours  of  the  day  and  all  hours  of  the  night,  in  sickness 
and  in  health — in  joy  and  in  sorrow.  He  is  remarkably  cheerful  in 
the  society  of  his  own  family  and  friends,  and  often  indulges  in  a 
loud  and  hearty  laugh.  As  far  as  my  observation  goes,  his  house  has 
always  been  open  to  visitors,  and  as  far  as  I  recollect,  I  have  never 
been  there  except  during  his  illness,  when  there  were  not  other  visit- 
ors. I  have  never  seen  at  his  table  a  larger  supply  of  wines  or  li- 
quors than  was  beeoming  one  in  his  position.  I  never  heard  the 
Bishop  charged  with  intemperance  until  after  the  second  present- 
ment was  made.  It  has  been  the  custom  of  the  Bishop  until  1849 
when  the  Convention  of  the  Diocese  of  New  Jersey  met  at  Burling- 
ton, on  the  first  day  to  entertain  the  Clergy  and  on  the  second  day 
the  Laity,  at  his  house. 

JOEL  W.  CONDIT. 

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  this  17th  November,  1852. 

Daniel  B.  Ryall,  M.  C.  C. 

Thomas  R.  "Wilson  being  duly  sworn  according  to  law  doth  de- 
pose and  say — I  reside  in  Trenton,  N.  J.  I  am  a  Vestryman  of  St. 
Paul's  Church,  Trenton,  and  Superintendant  of  the  Sunday  School. 
I  know  Bishop  Doane.  I  became  acquainted  with  him  in  the  Spring 
of  1848.  Since  then  I  have  known  him  very  intimately.  I  have 
met  him  always  upon  his  visitations  to  St.  Paul's  Church,  and  also  a 
few  times  at  his  own  house.  Have  generally  dined  with  him,  when 
he  has  visited  St.  Paul's,  at  the  house  of  Capt.  Hunt.  Since  my 
acquaintance  with  him,  his  character  for  sobriety  and  temperance 
has  been  unquestioned.  I  have  never  seen  him  intoxicated,  or  in  the 
slightest  degree  excited  by  the  use  of  intoxicating  drinks.  His  spir- 
its are  naturally  cheerful  and  lively. 

THOS.  R.  WILSON. 

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  this  17th  November,  1852. 

Daniel  B.  Ryall,  M.  C.  C. 


CORRESPONDENCE. 

EXHIBIT  A. 

Form  of  Notice. 

Diocese:  of  Now  Jersey,      ) 
Freehold,  Nov.  4th,  1852.    } 

Sir: 

The  Committee  appointed  by  the  last  Special  Convention  of  New 
Jersey,  held  at  Newark,  on  the  27th  day  of  October,  1852,  to  make 
a  full  investigation  of  the  new  matters  contained  in  the  Presentment 
lately  read  before  the  Court  of  Bishops,  and  signed  by  the  Bt.  Bev. 
Bishops  of  Virginia,  Maine  and  Ohio,  against  the  Bt.  Bev.  (J.  W. 
Doane,  Bishop  of  this  Diocese,  and  dated  22d  July,  1852,  will  hold 
a  meeting  at  the  City  Hotel,  (called  Belden's,)  in  the  city  of  Bur- 
lington, on  Monday,  the  15th  day  of  November,  1852,  at  12  o'clock 
M.,  for  the  purpose  of  attending  to  the  duties  of  their  appointment, 
of  which  you  hereby  have  notice.  And  you  are  respectfully  requested 
to  attend  at  such  meeting  with  such  evidence  as  you  have  or  know 
of,  touching  such  charges,  that  the  same  may  be  examined  and  in- 
vestigated by  said  Committee. 

By  order  of  the  Committee. 

Daniel  B.  Byall,  Chairman., 


Note. — Sent  by  mail,  post  paid,  November  4th,  1852,  Notices,  of  which 
above  is  Copy,  to  Rt  Rev.  G.  W.  Doane,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Burlington,  N.  J. 
Hun.  Win.  Balstead,  Trenton,  X.J. ;  Caleb  Perkins,  Beverly,  Burlington  Co., 
N.  J.  ;  Peter  V.  Coppuck,  Esq.,  Mount  ITolly,  N.  J.  ;  Bennington  Gill,  Esq., 
Allentown,  N.  J. ;  Michael  Hiys,  Burlington,  N.  J.,  and  Joseph  Deacon, 
Burlington,  N.  J.     By  or  lev  of  the  Committee. 

Danj 


„} 


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EXHIBIT  B. 

Letter  from  the  Hon.  William  Halstead. 

Trenton,  Nov.  8,  1852. 

Hon.  D.  B.  Ryall, 
Chairman  of  Committee, 

Sir: 

Your  letter  of  the  4th  inst.,  notifying  me  of  the  meeting  of  the 
Committee  of  Inquiry  in  the  case  of  Bishop  Doane,  was  received. — ■ 
I  shall  decline  attending  before  the  Committee  for  the  following, 
among  other  reasons. 

First,  Because  I  deny  the  authority  of  the  Convention  to  appoint 
any  such  Committee. 

Second,  Because  the  Committee  having  previously  acted  and  pro- 
nounced Bishop  Doane  innocent,  upon  charges  which  can  be  quite 
as  well  sustained  as  any  of  these,  have,  in  my  opinion,  already  pre- 
judged the  case. 

Third,  Because  I  conceive  the  Committee  from  its  very  composi- 
tion, and  from  the  relations  which  subsist  between  its  members  and 
Bishop  Doane,  to  be  unable  to  come  to  a  fair  and  impartial  determi- 
nation on  the  subject,  however  honest  their  intentions  may  be. 

Fourth,  Because  I  consider  the  appointment  of  the  Committee 
most  unfair,  unjust  and  tyrannical,  and  such  as  would  disgrace  an 
assemblage  of  pot-house  politicians,  who  are  generally  in  the  prac- 
tice of  allowing  the  minority  to  be  represented  by  a  minority  of  a 
Committee.  But  out  of  the  present  Committee  of  seven  the  minor- 
ity cannot  claim  one  who  sympathizes  with  them. 

Fifth,  Because  I  consider  the  manner  in  which  the  original  Com- 
mittee was  packed  and  selected  and  their  names  distributed  on  slips 
of  paper  among  the  faithful,  previous  to  their  nomination  in  the  Con- 
vention, as  unfair  and  disreputable,  and  I  consider  the  reappointment 
of  the  present  Committee  subject  to  all  the  objections  urged  against 
the  former  with  the  additional  objection  and  illegality  that  the  pre- 
sent Committee  have  power  to  fill  up  vacancies  that  may  occur,  as 
well  as  the  vacancy  that  had  occurred  by  the  removal  of  Mr.  Wake- 
field from  this  State  previous  to  the  appointment  of  the  Committe ; 
and  also  to  the  objection  that  three  of  the  Committee  were  so  desi- 
rous of  being  placed  upon  it  that  they  voted  for  the  Resolution  by 
which  they  were  appointed. 

Sixth,  Because  I  kuow  nothing  personally  of  the  four  charges  re- 
ferred to,  and  although  I  know  the  names  of  the  witnesses  by  whom 
it  is  expected  these  charges  will  be  sustained,  should  I  name  them, 
I  have  no  expectation  that  any  greater  proportion  of  those  named 
would  be  examined  on  the  present  occasion,  than  were  examined  by 


the  Committee  on  the  former  charges,  that  is  one  out  of  seven  and  a 
half,  I  shall  therefore  decline  even  to  name  them. 

I  am  very  Respectfully, 

Your  Ob't  Serv't; 

Wm.  Halstead. 
P.  S.  If  this  letter  is  published,  I  desire  that  it  may  not  be  gar- 
bled, as  was  one  of  my  letters  addressed  to  the  Committee  on  a  for- 
mer occasion. 

EXHIBIT  c. 

Letter  from  Michael  Hays. 

November  15th,  1852. 
Sir  : — Yours  of  the  4th  instant  came  duly  to  hand,  by  which  I 
learn  that  the  Committee,  appointed  at  a  Special  Convention  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  the  Diocese  of  N.  Jersey,  held  on 
the  27th  October  last,  will  meet  in  the  city  of  Burlington,  on  Monday 
the  15th  instant,  at  Belden's  Hotel,  at  12  o'clock,  M.,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  attending  to  the  duties  of  their  appointment;  and  requesting 
me  to  attend  said  meeting  with  such  evidence  as  I  have  or  know  of 
touching  such  new  charges  contained  in  the  presentment,  read  before 
the  Court  of  Bishops,  signed  by  the  lit.  Rev.  Bishops  of  Virginia, 
Maine  and  Ohio,  against  the  Rt.  Rev.  George  W.  Doane,  Bishop  of 
this  Diocese,  dated  July,  1852.  In  reply,  I  beg  leave  to  say,  that 
inasmuch  as  I  attended  the  late  Special  Convention,  held  at  Newark, 
on  the  27th  October  last,  and  by  a  vote  of  said  Convention  the  Com- 
mittee then  appointed  were  not  allowed  to  make  any  inquiry  into  any 
of  the  charges  of  the  former  presentment  against  the  lit.  Rev.  G.  W. 
Doane,  which  had  not  been  inquired  into,  and  not  having  been 
officially  informed  what  the  new  presentments  are,  I  cannot  know 
what  evidence  to  adduce  as  to  the  new  charges,  unless  it  is  from 
what  I  have  seen  in  the  newspapers,  and  of  these  charges  I  know 
nothing  of  my  own  knowledge,  except  the  case  of  the  Camden  Bunk, 
and  all  I  know  about  that  is,  that  I  got  clear  of  paying  a  note  on 
which  I  was  endorser  of  Bishop  Doane;  and  the  cashier  told  me  it 
was  in  consequence  of  G.  AY.  Doane  telling  him  if  he  would  not 
have  it  protested,  he  (G.  W.  Doane)  would  bring  them  the  money  or 
a  new  note  with  my  endorsement,  and  which  he  (G.  W.  Doane)  had 
never  done,  whereby  the  bank  lost  the  benefit  of  the  endorser; 
therefore  I  do  not  conceive  it  necessary  for  me  to  attend  before  said 
Committee,  as  what  L  kuow  of  the  new  charges  would  be  hearsay 
evidence,  except  what  I  have  stated.  But  I  would  ref<  r  yon  to  the 
cashier  of  Camden  Bank  for  proof  of  the  n<  -  against  G.  \\\ 

Doane,  for  not  keeping  his  word,  thereby  causing  a  loss  to  the  Bank. 
As  to  f  drinking  cider-brandy,  and  asking  for  more 

cider- brandy  or  apple-jack,  1  would  refer  you  to  Benjamin   Deacon, 


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son  of  Joseph  Deacon,  and  also  to  Sarah  Deacon,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Deacon.  Therefore,  until  a  Court  convenes,  to  try  the  charges  con- 
tained in  the  first  presentment,  made  by  the  Rt.  Rev.  Bishops  of 
Virginia,  Maine,  and  Ohio  against  the  Rt  Rev.  G.  W.  Doane, 
Bishop  of  New  Jersey,  I  think  I  may  be  spared  the  trouble  of  attend- 
ing before  committees.         Respectfully  yours, 

MICHAEL  HAYS. 
To  Daniel  B.  Ryall,  Esq.,  Chairman  of  Committee. 

EXHIBIT  D. 
Letter  from  Mr.  Wiley. 

New  York,  Nov.  19,  1852. 
D.  B.  Ryall,  Esq. 
Dear  Sir  :  By  the  request  of  one  of  the  Committee  of  which  you  are 
Chairman,  I  have  made  an  examination  of  Bishop  Doane's  account 
with  the  late  firm  of  Wiley  &  Putnam,  and  find  that  they  had  from 
him,  in  1843,  a  note  dated  March  3d,  at  three  months,  for  $197  93. 
I  also  find  this  note  was  protested  for  non-payment  at  maturity,  but 
that  it  was  subsequently  paid,  and  apparently  in  about  20  days  there- 
after. 

With  respect  to  the  fact  of  its  being  made  payable  at  a  particular 
bank,  this  may  have  been  done  for  the  convenience  of  the  Bishop,  or 
more  likely  by  my  own  suggestion,  as  I  found  at  times  some  incon- 
venience in  collecting  in  Burlington — the  notes  having  first  to  be 
sent  to  a  Philadelphia  Bank  by  the  Bank  in  this  city,  in  which 
W.  &  P.  kept  their  account,  and  from  thence  to  Burlington. 

All  claims  of  Wiley  &  Putnam  against  Bishop  Doane  were  paid  in 
full  some  years  since.         Very  respectfully  yours, 

JOHN  WILEY, 

Of  the  late  Firm. 


APPENDIX. 


PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE  COMMITTEE  OF  INVESTIGATION. 

The  Committee  appointed  by  the  Diocese  of  New  Jersey,  at  a 
Special  (''invention  held  at  Trinity  Church,  in  the  city  of  Newark, 
on  the  '27th  day  of  October,  A.  D.  1852,  to  make  a  full  investigation 
&c,  held  a  preliminary  meeting  at  the  I'ark  House  in  said  city  on  the 
same  evening,  organized  by  the  appointment  of  the  Hon.  D.  B.  Ryall, 
lirman, and  Thos.  II.  Whitney,  Esq.,  as  Secretary.  It  was  re- 
solved that  the  first  meeting  should  be  held  at  Leiden's  City  Hotel, 
in  Burlington,  on  Monday  the  15th  day  of  November,  '52,  at  12 
o'clock  (noon,)  for  the  purpose  of  attending  to  the  duties  of  their 
appointment.  Resolvedj That  the  Chairman  send  notice  in  writing  to 
the  four  Laymen  referred  to,  in  the  second  presentment,  and  the  ac- 
cused, the  Kt.  Rev.  Bishop  of  the  Diocese,  and  also  the  persons  named, 
and  referred  to,  in  the  new  specifications,  referred  to  said  Committee, 
of  the  time  and  place  of  said  meeting,  respectfully  requesting  them 
to  attend,  with  such  evidence  as  they  had,  or  knew  of,  touching  such 
charges,  that  the  same  might  be  examined  and  investigated  by  the 
Committee. 

November  15th,  A.  D.  1852,  the  Committee  met  at  12  o'clock,  at 
the  City  Hotel  in  Burlington,  pursuant  to  notice.  I 'resent,  Messrs. 
Ryall,  McFarlane,  Potter,  McKnight  and  Harker,  the  Bishop  being 
likewise  present.  It  appearing  to  the  Committee  that  the  room  of 
the  City  Hotel,  formerly  occupied  by  the  Committee,  was  now  occu- 
pied as  a  school,  and  that  a  more  convenient  place  of  meeting 
than  the  Hotel  could  be  had  at  the  Vestry  Room,  at  St.  Mary's 
Church,  in  Burlington, 

olved,  That  the  Committee  now  adjourn,  to  meet  at  the  Ves- 
try Room  at  4  o'clock,  P.  M.,  of  which  notice  was  given  to  parties 
and  witnesses.  At  4  o'clock,  P.  M.  the  Committee  met,  -and 
the  Secretary  not  being  present,  it  was  resolved  that  C  M.  Bar- 
ker be  appointed  Secretary  pro  tern.  A  letter  was  read  from  Mr. 
Wakefield,  one  of  the  Committee,  stating  that  owing  to  the  sickness 
of  a  member  of  his  family  he  should  he   unable  to  attend. 

On  motion,  John  R.  Slack,  Esq.,  of  Mt.  Holly,  was  unanimously 
selected  to  till  the  vacancy  occasioned  by  the  non-attendance  of  Mr. 
Wakefield. 


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No  evidence  being  offered  before  the  Committee,  Resolved,  That 
the  Committee  do  now  adjourn  to  to-morrow  morning  at  10  o'clock  at 
the  same  place. 

Tuesday  morning,  at  10  o'clock  the  Committee  met.  Present, 
Messrs.  Ryall,  McFarlane,  Potter,  McKnight,  Slack  and  Harker. 
No  evidence  being  offered  on  the  part  of  the  accusers,  the  following 
witnesses  were  examined  on  the  part  of  the  accused. 

1.  Dr.  Joseph  Parrish,  Affirmed. 

2.  Mrs.  Ann  Eliza  Kelley,  sworn. 

3.  Rev.  R.  J.  Germain,  sworn. 

4.  Rob't  B.  Aertsen,  Esq.,  sworn. 

5.  Rev.  Sam'l  L.  Southard,  sworn. 

The  Bishop  was  present.  At  2  o'clock,  P.  M.,  the  Committee 
adjourned  to  4  o'clock. 

At  4  o'clock  P.  M.,  the  Committee  met.     Present  as  before. 

The  following  witnesses  were  examined  on  the  part  of  the  accused. 

6.  Capt.  Frederick  Engle,  sworn. 

7.  William  J.  Watson,  Esq.,  sworn. 

Wednesday  morning — Committee  met  at  10  o'clock.  Present, 
all  the  members.     The  Bishop  was  present.     The  following  persons 

were  examined : 

Geo.  W.  Thompson,  Esq., 
Charles  Parker,  Jr., 
Joel  Yf .  Condit,  Esq., 
Thos.  R.  Wilson. 
No  evidence  was  offered  on  the  part  of  the  accusers. 

The  Committee,  on  consultation,  Resolved,  unanimously,  that  there 
was  no  evidence  to  sustain  these  new  charges  against  Bishop  Doane, 
or  any  just  grounds  for  presentment,  and  directed  their  Chairman  to 
draw  up  a  report  accordingly  and  submit  the  same  to  their  next 
meeting,  which  they  appointed  for  Tuesday,  the  30th  of  November, 
1852,  at  1  o'clock,  P.  M.,  at  the  Vestry-room  at  St.  Mary's  Church, 
in  Burlington,  to  which  time  and  place  the  Committee  adjourned  : 
having  first  directed  Mr.  McFarlane,  one  of  their  number,  to  call  on 
Wiley  k  Putnam  and  obtain  from  them,  or  one  of  them,  a  statement 
of  the  matters  in  which  they  were  parties,  in  the  last  clause  in  the 
16th  Specification,  to  be  transmitted  to  the  Chairman  before  making 
his  report,  if  convenient  so  to  do. 

The  Committee  then  adjourned,  as  above  stated,  to  meet  on  the 
30th  November,  1852,  at  the  time  and  place  above  indicated. 

30th  November,  1852,  at  1  o'clock,  P.  M.— The  Committee  met 
pursuant  to  adjournment. 


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